Free-phase NAPL-trapping features in intermontane basins

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-102

  Love, D W ^a   Whitworth, T M ^a   Davis, J M ^b   Seager, W R ^c  

^a NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

^c NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination; DNAPL; Hobson's Formula; LNAPL; NAPL; Stratigraphic and Structural Traps

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; INTERMONTANE BASIN; NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUID; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; TRAPPING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0033102569     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.v.1.87     Document Type: Article

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