Comparative analysis of laboratory and field tracer tests for investigating preferential flow and transport in mining waste rock

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 194, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 143-163

  Eriksson, Nils ^a   Gupta, Archana ^a   Destouni, Georgia ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION DISPERSION MODELS; TEMPORAL MOMENT ANALYSIS; WASTE ROCK;

BROMINE COMPOUNDS; DISPERSIONS; FLOW OF WATER; LYSIMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINING; PH EFFECTS; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; URANIUM COMPOUNDS;

SEDIMENT TRANSPORT;

MINING; MODELLING; TRACERS;

ADVECTION/DISPERSION; BROMIDE; FLUID FLOW; MINE WASTE; MINING WASTE; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; TRACER; URANINE;

SWEDEN, AITIK MINE;

EID: 0031194519     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(96)03209-X     Document Type: Article

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