An engineering approach to fingered vadose pollutant transport

Geoderma

Volumn 70, Issue 2-4, 1996, Pages 197-206

  Selker, John S ^a   Steenhuis, Tammo S ^b   Parlange, Jean Yves ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINGERING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROUS MEDIA-FLOW THROUGH; SOILS; VADOSE ZONE;

CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; FINGERED FLOW; GROUNDWATER; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 0029656856     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0016-7061(95)00085-2     Document Type: Article

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