NETPATH: An interactive program for calculating NET geochemical reactions and radiocarbon dating along a flow PATH
Description
NETPATH is an interactive Fortran 77 computer program used to interpret net geochemical mass-balance reactions between initial and final waters along a hydrologic flow path. The program uses chemical and isotopic data for waters from a hydrochemical system. The processes of dissolution, precipitation, ion exchange, oxidation/reduction, degradation of organic compounds, incongruent reaction, gas exchange, mixing, evaporation, dilution, isotope fractionation, and isotope exchange can be considered. Geochemical mass-balance reaction models are examined between selected evolutionary waters for every possible combination of the plausible phases that account for the composition of a selected set of chemical and isotopic constraints in the system. The NETPATH software includes a data-base program, DB, for storing and editing chemical and isotopic data for use in NETPATH.
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