Effect of horizontal heat and fluid flow on the vertical temperature distribution in a semiconfining layer

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1449-1453

  Lu, Ning ^a,c   Ge, Shemin ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER; FLUID FLOW; HEAT FLOW; SEMICONFINING LAYER; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0029730191     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95WR03095     Document Type: Article

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