Residual land subsidence over depleted gas fields in the Northern Adriatic Basin

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 389-405

  Baú, Domenico ^a   Gambolati, Giuseppe ^a   Teatini, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aquifer dynamics; Finite elements; Gas field development; Land subsidence; Nonlinear constitutive soil model; Post productive analysis; Real gas equation of state

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; GAS FIELD; GAS PRODUCTION; SUBSIDENCE;

ADRIATIC COAST; ITALY;

EID: 0033495961     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/gseegeosci.v.4.389     Document Type: Article

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