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Baseflow Age Distributions and Depth of Active Groundwater Flow in a Snow‐Dominated Mountain Headwater Basin

Baseflow Age Distributions and Depth of Active Groundwater Flow in a Snow‐Dominated Mountain Headwater Basin

Authors :
Rosemary W.H. Carroll
Andrew H. Manning
Richard Gray Niswonger
David W. Marchetti
Kenneth Hurst Williams
Source :
Water Resources Research, vol 56, iss 12
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
eScholarship, University of California, 2020.

Abstract

Deeper flows through bedrock in mountain watersheds could be important, but lack of data to characterize bedrock properties limits understanding. To address data scarcity, we combine a previously published integrated hydrologic model of a snow-dominated, headwater basin of the Colorado River with a new method for dating baseflow age using dissolved gas tracers SF6, CFC-113, N2, and Ar. The original flow model predicts the majority of groundwater flow through shallow alluvium (

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Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Water Resources Research, vol 56, iss 12
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....cc9191914afaec543e5f0b3a85123bde