Simulated three-dimensional ground-water flow in the lockport group, a fractured dolomite aquifer Near Niagara Falls, New York

US Geological Survey Water Supply Paper

Volumn 2487, Issue , 1996, Pages 1-42

  Yager, Richard M ^a  

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