Sorbing tracer experiments in a crystalline rock fracture at Äspö (Sweden): 1. Experimental setup and microscale characterization of retention properties

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2007, Pages

  Widestrand, H ^a   Byegard J ^a   Cvetkovic, V ^b   Tullborg, E L ^c   Winberg, A ^d   Andersson, P ^e   Siitari Kauppi, M ^f  

^a Geosigma AB   (Sweden)

^b ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c Terralogica AB   (Sweden)

^d Conterra AB ^*  (Sweden)

^e Geosigma AB   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVITY; SORPTION;

FRACTURE SURFACE; SORPTION MEASUREMENTS;

ROCK MECHANICS;

DIFFUSION; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVITY; ROCK MECHANICS; SORPTION;

CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DIORITE; FRACTURE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MYLONITE; POROSITY; RETENTION; ROCK PROPERTY; SATURATION; SORPTION; TRACER; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

ASPO; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SODERMANLAND; SWEDEN;

EID: 36749029941     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005277     Document Type: Article

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