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Baseflow age distributions and depth of active groundwater flow in a snow‐dominated mountain headwater basin

November 18, 2020

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 (

Publication Year 2020
Title Baseflow age distributions and depth of active groundwater flow in a snow‐dominated mountain headwater basin
DOI 10.1029/2020WR028161
Authors Rosemary Carroll, Andrew Manning, Richard Niswonger, David Marchetti, Kenneth Williams
Publication Type Article
Publication Subtype Journal Article
Series Title Water Resources Research
Index ID 70219111
Record Source USGS Publications Warehouse
USGS Organization Geology, Geophysics, and Geochemistry Science Center
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