Direct-push hydrostratigraphic profiling: Coupling electrical logging and slug tests

Ground Water

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 19-29

  Sellwood, Stephen M ^a,b   Healey, John M ^a   Birk, Steffen ^a,c   Butler Jr , James J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b BT2 Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IMPURITIES;

HYDROSTRATIGRAPHIC PROFILING; PERMANENT WELLS; SUBSURFACE PROPERTIES;

STRATIGRAPHY;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SLUG TEST; SPATIAL VARIATION;

FRESH WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTANT;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 15844383132     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2005.tb02282.x     Document Type: Article

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