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Investigating Gas-Water-Rock Carbon Isotope Exchange in the Field

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Lorenz Eichinger
Lorenz Eichinger*
Affiliation:
Hydroisotop GmbH, 8053 Attenkirchen, West Germany
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Abstract

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Extensive investigations of isotope content and hydrochemical parameters in soil gas, soil material, groundwater and seepage water from a Quaternary aquifer show a good correlation between 14C concentration of the groundwater and its mean residence time in the unsaturated zone. The initial 14C concentration varies between 100 and 50% modern. It decreases through solution and dissolution of carbonates to 50% of the 14C concentration of atmospheric CO2.

Type
IV. Applications
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 31 , Issue 3: June 20-25, 1988 Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia , 1989 , pp. 934 - 939
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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