Noble gases as environmental tracers in sediment porewaters and stalagmite fluid inclusions

The Noble Gases as Geochemical Tracers

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 123-153

  Brennwald, M S ^a   Vogel, N ^a,b   Scheidegger, Y ^a   Tomonaga, Y ^a   Livingstone, D M ^a   Kipfer, R ^a,b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; INERT GASES; MINERALOGY; MIXING; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE WATERS;

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENTAL TRACERS; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; GAS GEOCHEMISTRY; MIXING CONDITIONS; OCEANIC SEDIMENTS; SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; TECHNICAL ADVANCES;

TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EID: 85017132675     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-28836-4_6     Document Type: Chapter

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