Environmental Tracers in Subsurface Hydrology

by Peter G. Cook (Editor), Andrew L. Herczeg (Editor)

Overview

Environmental Tracers in Subsurface Hydrology synthesizes the research of specialists into a comprehensive review of the application of environmental tracers to the study of soil water and groundwater flow. The book includes chapters which cover ionic tracers, noble gases, chlorofluorocarbons, tritium, chlorine-36, oxygen-18, deuterium, and isotopes of carbon, strontium, sulphur and nitrogen. Applications of the tracers include the estimation of vertical and horizontal groundwater velocities, groundwater recharge rates, inter-aquifer leakage and mixing processes, chemical processes and palaeohydrology. Practicing hydrologists, soil physicists and hydrology professors and students will find the book to be a valuable support in their work.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461370574
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	10/12/2012
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Pages:	529
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

1. Determining Timescales for Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport.- 2. Inorganic Ions as Tracers.- 3. Isotope Engineering — Using Stable Isotopes of the Water Molecule to Solve Practical Problems.- 4. Radiocarbon Dating of Groundwater Systems.- 5. U-Series Nuclides as Tracers in Groundwater Hydrology.- 6. Radon-222.- 7. Sulphur and Oxygen Isotopes in Sulphate.- 8. Strontium Isotopes.- 9. Nitrate Isotopes in Groundwater Systems.- 10. Chlorine-36.- 11. Atmospheric Noble Gases.- 12. Noble Gas Radioisotopes: 37Ar, 85Kr, 39Ar, 81Kr.- 13. 3Hand3He.- 14. 4He in Groundwater.- 15. Chlorofluorocarbons.- 16. S 11B, Rare Earth Elements, 8 37Cl, 32Si, 35S, 129I.- Appendix 1: Stable Isotope Notation and Fractionation.- Appendix 2: Decay Constants and Half-Lives of.- Appendix 3: Solubilities of Environmental Gas Tracers.- Appendix 4: Liquid and Gas-Phase Diffusion Coefficients.