A conceptual evaluation of regional ground-water flow, southern Nevada-California, USA

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 465-478

  Campana, Michael E ^a   Byer Jr , Robert M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c R E Wright Environmental Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground Water Ages; Ground Water Flow; Ground Water Hydrology; Hydrogeology; Modeling

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; MODELLING; STEADY FLOW;

FLUID FLOW; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER MODELLING;

USA, NEVADA, NEVADA TEST SITE;

EID: 0030434390     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.ii.4.465     Document Type: Article

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