Theme Session 4

Identification of Environmental Processes Using Isotopic Tracers

Margaret Townsend, Kansas Geological Survey
Roy Spalding, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Use of isotopic tracers for evaluation of the environment includes such activities as recharge studies, age dating, soil stratigraphy, groundwater source tracing, erosion and weathering phenomena has expanded in the past ten years. This session will be an opportunity to evaluate the multitude of applications of isotopes in environmental earth sciences.