Tracing of water movement through the unsaturated zone of a coarse gravel aquifer by means of dye and deuterated water

Environmental Geology

Volumn 51, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1401-1412

  Mali, Nina ^a   Urbanc, Janko ^a   Leis, Albrecht ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

^b JOANNEUM RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEUTERIUM; DYES; FLUORESCENCE; LYSIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

DEUTERATED WATER; UNSATURATED ZONE; URANINE; WATER FLOW; WATER MOVEMENT;

AQUIFERS;

AQUIFER; DEUTERIUM; DYE TRACER; FLOW VELOCITY; GRAVEL; LYSIMETER; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; VADOSE ZONE; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 33847030735     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0437-4     Document Type: Article

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