<sup>81</sup>Kr: A NEW METHOD OF PALEOGROUNDWATER DATING

LING Xin-ying; MA Jin-zhu; YANG Huan; YU Hai-chao; HE Jian-hua

2019 Vol. 28, No. 1

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LING Xin-ying, MA Jin-zhu, YANG Huan, YU Hai-chao, HE Jian-hua. 81Kr: A NEW METHOD OF PALEOGROUNDWATER DATING[J]. Geology and Resources, 2019, 28(1): 90-94.

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LING Xin-ying, MA Jin-zhu, YANG Huan, YU Hai-chao, HE Jian-hua. ⁸¹Kr: A NEW METHOD OF PALEOGROUNDWATER DATING[J]. Geology and Resources, 2019, 28(1): 90-94.

⁸¹Kr: A NEW METHOD OF PALEOGROUNDWATER DATING

College of Resources and Environment Sciences/Key Laboratory of Western China's Environmental System of Ministry of Education, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China

Received Date: 21 May 2018

Revised Date: 09 July 2018

Publish Date: 28 February 2019

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Due to its advantages such as stable chemical property, long half-life and no extra sources during groundwater migration, ⁸¹Kr has recently become an effective method to determine the age of paleogroundwater (10⁵-10⁶ a). The overseas researches on determination of ⁸¹Kr and groundwater dating are relatively mature, yet related domestic studies are still at the beginning stage. This paper summarizes the principles of ⁸¹Kr in groundwater dating and extraction method, discusses the problems in current research, and makes prospects for the studies of radioactive Kr nuclide in hydrogeochemistry, which provides scientific basis for the researches at home.
- ⁸¹Kr /
- groundwater dating /
- radionuclide /
- hydrogeology

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