MTBE Transport Screening Analysis in Vadose Zone Risk and Liability Apportionment Assessment

Environmental Forensics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 105-112

  Uddameri, Venkatesh ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Allocation; cleanup; mass flux; loadings; MTBE; vadose.

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347140532     PISSN: 15275922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/enfo.2000.0024     Document Type: Article

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