Environmental problems and geological implications derived from evaporite dissolution in the Barbastro salt anticline (NE Spain)

Environmental Geology

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1045-1055

  Lucha, P ^a   Gutierrez F ^a   Guerrero, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ebro Basin; Halokinesis; Solution mining; Subsidence hazard

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; DRAINAGE; RISK MANAGEMENT; SILT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLUTION MINING; SPAIN; SUBSIDENCE;

EBRO BASIN; EVAPORITE KARSTIFICATION; HALOKINESIS; SUBSIDENCE HAZARD; SUBSIDENCE RISK;

SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

ANTICLINE; DEFORMATION; DISSOLUTION; EVAPORITE; GROUTING; HALITE; KARSTIFICATION; SALT TECTONICS; SUBSIDENCE; UPLIFT;

ARAGON; CATALONIA; CINCA RIVER; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUESCA [ARAGON]; IVARS DE NOGUERA; LERIDA [CATALONIA]; NOGUERA RIBAGORZANA RIVER; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

EID: 37249067081     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-0731-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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