Mechanisms of earth fissuring caused by groundwater withdrawal

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 351-362

  Sheng, Zhuping ^a   Helm, Donald C ^b   Li, Jiang ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY SYSTEM   (United States)

^b Center of Excellence for Tactical and Advanced Communications Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISSURE; GROUNDWATER ABSTRACTION; STRESS FIELD;

EID: 1842709015     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/9.4.351     Document Type: Article

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