Hydrogeochemistry of the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed

• Main Authors: Hawkins, Daniel B., Glover, David M.
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of Alaska, Institute of Water Resources 1982
• Subjects: chemical composition; bedrock dissolution; Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/1459

Bedrock of the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed dissolves incongruently with a first-order rate constant of about 5 x 10-6 day-1 at 5° C. The resulting solution is potassium-calcium-magnesium rich. The soil-plant environment acts on this solution through sorption of potassium and by evapotran...