Unsaturated flow and transport through a fault embedded in fractured welded tuff

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2004, Pages

  Salve, Rohit ^a   Liu, Hui Hai ^a   Cook, Paul ^a   Czarnomski, Atlantis ^a   Hu, Qinhong ^b   Hudson, David ^c  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fault; Flow; Transport

Indexed keywords

CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; DATA REDUCTION; DIFFUSION; FRACTURE; MATRIX ALGEBRA;

MATRIX DIFFUSION; UNSATURATED FLOW;

UNSATURATED COMPOUNDS;

FRACTURE FLOW; RADIONUCLIDE MIGRATION; TUFF; UNSATURATED FLOW; VADOSE ZONE;

NEVADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YUCCA MOUNTAIN;

YUCCA;

EID: 2442691944     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002571     Document Type: Article

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