Flow channeling in heterogeneous fractured rocks

Reviews of Geophysics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 275-298

  Tsang, Chin Fu ^a   Neretnieks, Ivars ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW CHANNELING; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURED ROCK; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EXCITONS; TOXIC MATERIALS;

CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; GEOLOGIC ISOLATION; GEOLOGICAL MEDIA; MEDIUM HETEROGENEITY; PRACTICAL PROBLEMS; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0031869422     PISSN: 87551209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97RG03319     Document Type: Article

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