Author(s)

D.E. Farmer, T.R. Glew & S.H. Faller

Abstract

Tritium concentrations were determined in precipitation samples collected in the Las Vegas Valley and Spring Mountains of southeastern Nevada. The purpose of our study was to continue to track the general decrease of "bomb pulse" tritium in the Northern Hemisphere since the 1960s and identify the current tritium "recharge signal" for waters supplying important local and regional aquifers. Based on our findings, the current levels of tritium in local precipitation approximate those measured before the advent of the atomic age and are stron

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