Environmental Tracers in Subsurface Hydrology [Paperback]

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.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.List of Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. 1. Determining Timescales for Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport; P.G. Cook, J.-K. Bohlke. 2. Inorganic Ions as Tracers; A.L. Herczeg, W.M. Edmunds. 3. Isotope Engineering - Using stable isotopes of the water to solve practical problems; T.B. Coplen, et al. 4. Radiocarbon Dating of Groundwater Systems; R.M. Kalin. 5. Uranium-Series Nuclides as Tracers in Groundwater Hydrology; J.lc3