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  • Becker, M.W., and Coplen, T.B., 2001, Deuterated water as a conservative artificial ground-water tracer: Hydrogeology Journal, v. 9., p. 512-516.

  • Böhlke, J. K., and Krantz, D. E., 2003, Isotope geochemistry and chronology of offshore ground water beneath Indian River Bay, Delaware: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 03-4192, 37 p. (on-line report in pdf format)

  • Plummer, L.N., Busenberg, E., Böhlke, J.K., Nelms, D.L., Michel, R.L., and Schlosser, P., 2001, Groundwater residence times in Shenandoah National Park, Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, USA: A Multi-Tracer Approach: Chemical Geology, v. 179, p. 93-111. (on-line abstract)

  • Böhlke, J.K., Smith, R.L., Coplen, T.B., Busenberg, E., and LeBlanc, D.R., 1999, Recharge conditions and flow velocities of contaminated and uncontaminated ground waters at Cape Cod, Massachusetts: Evaluation of d2H, d18O, and dissolved gases: U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 99-4018C, p. 337-348.

  • Cook, P.G., and Böhlke, J.K., 1999, Determining time scales for groundwater flow and solute transport, in Cook, P.G., and Herzeg, A., eds., Environmental Tracers in Subsurface Hydrology: Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 1-30.

  • Coplen, T.B., Herczeg, A., and Barnes, C.J., 1999, Isotope engineering--using stable isotopes of the water molecule to solve practical problems, in Cook, P.G. and Herczeg, A., eds., Environmental Tracers in Subsurface: Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers, p. 79-110.

  • Focazio, M.J., Plummer, L.N., Böhlke, J.K., Busenburg, E., Bachman, L.J., and Powars, D.S., 1998, Preliminary estimates of residence times and apparent ages of ground water in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, and water-quality data from a survey of springs: U.S. Geological Survey Water Resources Investigations Report 97-4225, 75 p.

  • Deak, J., and Coplen, T.B., 1996, Identification of Holocene and Pleistocene groundwaters in Hungary using oxygen and hydrogen isotopic ratios, in Isotope in Water Resources Management, v. 1: Vienna, International Atomic Energy Agency, p. 438.

  • Dunkle, S.A., Plummer, L.N., Busenberg, E., Phillips, P.J., Denver, J.M., Hamilton, P.A., Michel, R.L., and Coplen, T.B., 1993, Chlorofluorocarbons (CC13F and CC12F2) as dating tools and hydrologic tracers in shallow ground water of the Delmarva Peninsula, Atlantic Coastal Plain, USA: Water Resources Research, v. 12, p. 3837-3860.

  • Coplen, T.B., 1993, Uses of environmental isotopes, in Alley, W.M., ed., Regional ground-water quality: New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold, p. 227-254.

  • Davis, G. H., and Coplen, T. B., 1989, Late Cenozoic paleohydrogeology of the Western San Joaquin Valley, California, as related to structural movements in the Central Coast Ranges: Geological Society of America Special Paper 234, 40 p.

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