Tracer transport in fractured crystalline rock: Evidence of nondiffusive breakthrough tailing

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1677-1686

  Becker, Matthew W ^a   Shapiro, Allen M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POROUS MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACER;

CRYSTALLINE ROCK; FRACTURED MEDIUM; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACER;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; FRACTURE; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS;

ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; DEUTERATED WATER; MATRIX DIFFUSION; MOLECULAR DIFFUSIVITY; NONDIFFUSIVE TRANSPORT; TRACER TRANSPORT;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS;

EID: 0033845050     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000WR900080     Document Type: Article

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