Estimating Hydraulic Conductivities in an Alluvial Basin from Sediment Facies Models

Ground Water

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1024-1032

  McCloskey, Thomas F ^a   Finnemore, E John ^b  

^a BROWN AND CALDWELL   (United States)

^b Department of Computer Science and Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEDIMENTS;

ALLUVIAL BASIN; ALLUVIAL FANS; FLUVIAL DEPOSITION; SEDIMENTARY FACIES MODELS;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 0030283811     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1996.tb02168.x     Document Type: Article

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