Stable and Radioisotope Systematics Reveal Fossil Water as Fundamental Characteristic of Arid Orogenic‐Scale Groundwater Systems | Semantic Scholar
@article{Moran2019StableAR,
title={Stable and Radioisotope Systematics Reveal Fossil Water as Fundamental Characteristic of Arid Orogenic‐Scale Groundwater Systems},
author={Brendan J. Moran and David F. Boutt and Lee Ann Munk},
journal={Water Resources Research},
year={2019},
volume={55},
pages={11295 - 11315},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:212895806}
}In arid and semiarid regions, persistent hydrological imbalances illuminate the considerable gaps in our spatiotemporal understanding of fundamental catchment‐scale governing mechanisms. The Salar de Atacama basin is the most extreme example of groundwater‐dominated continental basins and therefore is an ideal place to probe these unresolved questions. Geochemical and hydrophysical observations indicate that groundwaters discharging into the basin reflect a large regional system integrated over…