Recent ground subsidence at Crown Road, Tauhara and its probable causes

Geothermics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 181-191

  Bromley, Chris J ^a   Currie, Steve ^b   Manville, Vern R ^a   Rosenberg, Michael D ^a  

^a GNS SCIENCE   (New Zealand)

^b Energy Surveys ^*  (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Compressibility; Geothermal; Ground subsidence; Groundwater; New Zealand; Thermal clay alteration

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CLAY ALTERATION; CLAY MINERALS; COMPRESSIBILITY; GEOTHERMAL FIELDS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; INCOMPRESSIBLE FLOW; KAOLINITE; ROADS AND STREETS; TUNNELING (EXCAVATION); UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; WATER CONTENT; WATER LEVELS;

COMPRESSIBLE CLAYS; DRIVING MECHANISMS; GEOTHERMAL; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEMS; GROUND SUBSIDENCE; HIGH PLASTICITIES; HYDROTHERMAL ERUPTIONS; IGNIMBRITE; MACRO POROSITIES; NEW ZEALAND; SHEAR MODES; SMECTITE; THERMAL CLAY ALTERATION; URBAN AREAS;

SUBSIDENCE;

AQUIFER; GEOTHERMAL GRADIENT; GEOTHERMAL SYSTEM; GROUNDWATER; IGNIMBRITE; KAOLINITE; SMECTITE; SUBSIDENCE; THERMAL ALTERATION;

AUSTRALASIA; MANAWATU-WANGANUI; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH ISLAND; TAUPO; WAIKATO; WAIRAKEI;

EID: 60249100301     PISSN: 03756505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geothermics.2008.11.008     Document Type: Article

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