Land subsidence and earth fissures due to groundwater withdrawal in the Southern Yangtse Delta, China

Environmental Geology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 751-762

  Zhang, Yun ^a   Xue, Yu Qun ^a   Wu, Ji Chun ^a   Yu, Jun ^b   Wei, Zi Xin ^c   Li, Qin Fen ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF JIANGSU PROVINCE   (China)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (China)

Author keywords

Aquifer system compaction; Earth fissure; Groundwater extraction; Land subsidence; The Southern Yangtse Delta

Indexed keywords

GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRESSES; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS;

AQUITARD; AREAL DISTRIBUTION; CONFINED AQUIFERS; DIFFERENTIAL SUBSIDENCE; FIELD DATA; GROUNDWATER WITHDRAWALS; HORIZONTAL DISPLACEMENT (HD); LAND SUBSIDENCE; MECHANICAL BEHAVIORS; PIEZOMETRIC LEVELS; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

SUBSIDENCE;

AQUIFER; COMPACTION; FISSURE; GROUNDWATER; SHEAR STRESS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SUBSIDENCE; TEMPORAL DISTRIBUTION; TENSILE STRESS;

ASIA; CHANGZHOU; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; JIANGSU; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 48249139062     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-1028-8     Document Type: Article

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