The use of upward hydraulic gradients to arrest downward DNAPL migration in rock fractures

Ground Water

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 483-491

  Chown, Jennifer C ^a   Kueper, Bernard H ^a   McWhorter, David B ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Engineering Research Center and Hydraulics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; FRACTURE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; IMPURITIES; LIMESTONE;

DENSE NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS (DNAPL); HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; TETRACHLOROETHYLENE;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

EID: 0031149973     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1997.tb00109.x     Document Type: Article

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