Karstification below dam sites: A model of increasing leakage from reservoirs

Environmental Geology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 518-524

  Dreybrodt, W ^a   Romanov, D ^a   Gabrovsek, F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b KARST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Dam site; Gypsum; Karstification; Leakage; Limestone

Indexed keywords

CARBONATES; CAVES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DAMS; FOUNDATIONS; FRACTURE; GROUTING; GYPSUM; HYDRAULICS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); LIMESTONE; ROCKS; TURBULENT FLOW; WATER;

DISSOLUTION RATES;

RESERVOIRS (WATER);

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DAM FAILURE; KARST; LEAKAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELING;

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DAM FAILURE; FRACTURE FLOW; KARSTIFICATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESERVOIR IMPOUNDMENT; SOLUTION FEATURE;

EID: 0036705439     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-001-0514-7     Document Type: Article

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