Isotope Oxygen-18 as Natural Tracer of Water Movement in a Coarse Gravel Unsaturated Zone

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 203, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 291-303

  Mali, Nina ^a   Urbanc, Janko ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Environmental isotopes; Lumped parameter models; Lysimeter; Residence time; Unsaturated zone

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; FLOW OF WATER; FLOW VELOCITY; GRAVEL; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; ISOTOPES; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; LYSIMETERS; RESERVOIRS (WATER); SOIL SURVEYS; SURFACE DISCHARGES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER RESOURCES;

ENVIRONMENTAL ISOTOPES; FLOW CHARAC-TERISTICS; GROUNDWATER DYNAMICS; GROUNDWATER TRANSPORT; LUMPED PARAMETER MODELS; PROTECTIVE FUNCTION; RESIDENCE TIME; UNSATURATED ZONE;

GROUNDWATER;

DEUTERIUM; GROUND WATER; OXYGEN 18;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FLOW RATE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HYDROLOGY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER SAMPLING; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 85014496987     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-009-0012-1     Document Type: Article

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