Contaminant migration from disposal of acid tar wastes in fractured Coal Measures strata, southern Derbyshire

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 128, Issue , 1998, Pages 283-311

  Banks, D ^a,b   Nesbit, N L ^c   Firth, T ^a,d   Power, S ^e,f  

^a Scott Wilson Group plc   (United Kingdom)

^b Norges Geologiske U ^*  (Norway)

^c Aspinwall and Company   (United Kingdom)

^d Rendel Geotechnics   (United Kingdom)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f Sun Hung Kai Centre   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 0008000667     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.SP.1998.128.01.21     Document Type: Article

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