Ground-Water Sampling and Time-Series Evaluation Techniques to Determine Vertical Concentration Distributions

Ground Water

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 825-841

  Cosler, Douglas J ^a  

^a QST Environmental Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EFFLUENTS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; SAMPLING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WATER QUALITY; WATER WELLS;

CONCENTRATION CURVE METHOD; DISCRETE INTERVAL SAMPLING;

AQUIFERS;

EID: 0031233815     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1997.tb00151.x     Document Type: Article

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