Hydraulic/partitioning tracer tomography for characterization of dense nonaqueous phase liquid source zones

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Yeh, Tian Chyi J ^a,b   Zhu, Junfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLES; CONTAMINATION; MAPPING; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

DENSE NONAQUEOUS PHASE LIQUIDS (DNAPL); STOCHASTIC ESTIMATOR; TRACER BREAKTHROUGHS;

STREAM FLOW;

BOREHOLES; CONTAMINATION; MAPPING; STREAM FLOW; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

GRADIENT ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; MAPPING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVEY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRACER;

EID: 34547177291     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR004877     Document Type: Article

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