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Groundwater

How much and how old?

Nature Geoscience volume 9, pages 93–94 (2016)Cite this article

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A global picture of the age structure and flow path of groundwater is lacking. Tritium concentrations and numerical modelling shed light on both the most recently replenished and the longest stored groundwater within Earth's continents.

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Figure 1: Aging of groundwater.

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  1. Ying Fan is in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08544-8600, USA,

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