Dam sites in soluble rocks: A model of increasing leakage by dissolutional widening of fractures beneath a dam

Engineering Geology

Volumn 70, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 17-35

  Romanov, Douchko ^a   Gabrovšek, Franci ^b   Dreybrodt, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b KARST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Dam sites; Dissolution kinetics; Gypsum; Karst; Leakage; Limestone

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; FRACTURE TESTING; ROCKS;

FISSURES;

DAMS;

DAM; FLUID FLOW; FRACTURE; KARST; LEAKAGE;

DAM; DISSOLUTION; FRACTURE FLOW; HYDRODYNAMIC FORCE; KARSTIFICATION; LEAKAGE; MITIGATION;

EID: 0041703438     PISSN: 00137952     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0013-7952(03)00073-5     Document Type: Article

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