Measuring groundwater–stream water exchange: New techniques for installing minipiezometers and estimating hydraulic conductivity

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 493-502

  Baxter, Colden ^a,c   Hauer, F Richard ^a   Woessner, William W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYPORHEIC ZONE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PIEZOMETER; RIVER; WATER EXCHANGE;

PISCES; RIPARIA;

EID: 0037566219     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2003)132<0493:MGWENT>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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