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Multiple Tracer (4He, 14C, 39Ar, 3H/3He, 85Kr) Depth Profile in an Extensively Exploited Multilevel Aquifer System in the Venetian Plain, Italy

Creators

  • 1. Centre Europeen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Geosciences de l'Environnement, Aix-en-Provence (France)
  • 2. Climate and Environmental Physics, University of Bern (Switzerland)
  • 3. Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen (Germany)
  • 4. UMR-EMMAH, Universite d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse, Avignon (France)

Description

Individual dating tracers have their specific inherent properties, advantages and limitations. Apparent 4He accumulation ages are biased as a function of a prior unknown external helium influx; 14C (T1/2: 5730 a) dating in groundwater requires suitable geochemical correction schemes and 39Ar (T1/2: 269 a) may be affected by underground production. In a multiple tracer study in the Venetian Plain, Italy, using 4He, 14C. 39Ar 3H/3He and 85Kr data, the groundwater residence times in a depth profile consisting of different separated aquifers between 50-350 m depth are estimated. Moreover, limitations and uncertainties of the applied tracer methods are identified, assessed and quantified. (author)

Part of:
Isotopes in Hydrology, Marine Ecosystems and Climate Change Studies, Vol. 2. Proceedings of the International Symposium

Additional details

Identifiers

URL
http://www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/SupplementaryMaterials/Pub1580_vol2_web.pdf; http://www.iaea.org/books;

Publishing Information

Publisher
IAEA
Imprint Place
Vienna (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA))
ISBN
978-92-0-135610-9
Imprint Title
Isotopes in Hydrology, Marine Ecosystems and Climate Change Studies, Vol. 2. Proceedings of the International Symposium
Imprint Pagination
655 p.
Series
Proceedings Series
Journal Page Range
p. 109-116
ISSN
0074-1884

Conference

Title
International Symposium on Isotopes in Hydrology, Marine Ecosystems and Climate Change Studies
Dates
27 Mar - 1 Apr 2011
Place
Monaco (Monaco)

INIS

Country of Publication
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
44078883
Subject category
S58: GEOSCIENCES;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
AGE ESTIMATION; AQUIFERS; ARGON 39; CARBON 14; DEPTH; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUND WATER; HELIUM 3; HELIUM 4; KRYPTON 85; TRITIUM; UNDERGROUND
Descriptors DEC
ARGON ISOTOPES; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHEMISTRY; DIMENSIONS; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; EVEN-ODD NUCLEI; HELIUM ISOTOPES; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPES; KRYPTON ISOTOPES; LEVELS; LIGHT NUCLEI; MICROSECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; RADIOISOTOPES; STABLE ISOTOPES; WATER; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES

Optional Information

Notes
5 figs., 1 tab., 6 refs. Imprint:In two volumes
Secondary number(s)
IAEA-CN--186/115