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Published online 26 January 2006
Published in Vadose Zone J 5:98-120 (2006)
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2005.0002
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Borehole Environmental Tracers for Evaluating Net Infiltration and Recharge through Desert Bedrock

Victor M. Heilweil*,a, D. Kip Solomonb and Philip M. Gardnera

a U.S. Geological Survey, 2329 Orton Cir., Salt Lake City, UT 84119
b Univ. of Utah, 135 South 1460 East, Rm. 719 WBB, Salt Lake City, UT 84112

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  		Fig. 1. Location of Sand Hollow, Washington County, Utah.

 

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  		Fig. 2. Soils map with location of wells, borehole core-collection sites, and meteorology station in Sand Hollow, UT.

 

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  		Fig. 3. Chloride concentration and volumetric water content of pore-water and groundwater samples collected at selected boreholes in Sand Hollow, UT.

 

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  		Fig. 4. Relation of chloride/bromide ratio to chloride concentration in water from selected wells in Sand Hollow, UT.

 

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  		Fig. 5. Estimated tritium concentration of precipitation at Sand Hollow, UT, 1953 to 2000.

 

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  		Fig. 6. Tritium concentration of pore-water and groundwater samples collected from selected boreholes in Sand Hollow, UT.

 

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  		Fig. 7. Relation of tritium concentration to chloride concentration in water from selected wells in Sand Hollow, UT.

 

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  		Fig. 8. Relation between stable-isotope ratios of deuterium and oxygen in vadose zone pore water, water samples from selected wells, and precipitation in Sand Hollow, UT.

 

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  		Fig. 9. Stable isotope ratio of deuterium in pore-water and groundwater samples collected from selected wells in Sand Hollow, UT.

 

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  		Fig. 10. Vadose zone water potential measured with heat-dissipation probes at various depths below land surface at Site 39, Sand Hollow, UT.

 




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