Infiltration from an impoundment for coal-bed natural gas, Powder River Basin, Wyoming: Evolution of water and sediment chemistry

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Healy, Richard W ^a   Rice, Cynthia A ^a   Bartos, Timothy T ^a   McKinley, Michael P ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMISTRY; COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); GAS INDUSTRY; GASES; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILTRATION; NATURAL GAS; NITRATES; POWDERS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SOIL MECHANICS; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATERSHEDS;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS; POWDER RIVER BASIN; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORES; SUCTION LYSIMETERS; WATER SAMPLES; WYOMING;

COAL GAS;

COAL SEAM; GYPSUM; IMPOUNDMENT; INFILTRATION; ION EXCHANGE; NATURAL GAS; PLUME; RIVER BASIN; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT CORE; WATER CHEMISTRY; WATER MANAGEMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; POWDER BASIN; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

EID: 49549117105     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006396     Document Type: Article

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