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The notion of the age of water is rather ambiguous. The age of water is usually understood to be its residence time in the studied geological object. It is further assumed that either the isotopic composition of the radioactive elements changes only through radioactive decay or that the law which governs their contribution or removal from water with a definite isotopic composition is known. These simple, theoretical suggestions are hard to apply in practice. Therefore, the main criterion of data verification is the comparison of results obtained by different methods, which usually correlate weakly with each other.
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Ferronsky, V.I., Polyakov, V.A. (2012). Dating of Surface Water, Groundwater, and Sediments. In: Isotopes of the Earth's Hydrosphere. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2856-1_17
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