Recent experimental data may point to a greater role for osmotic pressures in the subsurface

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Neuzil, C E ^a   Provost, A M ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGILLACEOUS FORMATIONS; BROAD SPECTRUMS; CALCULATED VALUES; CHEMICAL POTENTIAL DIFFERENCES; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; FLUID PRESSURES; GEOLOGIC SETTINGS; IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; NUMBER OF DATUM; OSMOTIC EFFICIENCIES; OSMOTIC PRESSURES; POROUS MEDIUMS; SUB-SURFACE FLOWS; SUBSURFACE CONDITIONS;

POROUS MATERIALS;

OSMOSIS;

ANOMALY; ARGILLACEOUS DEPOSIT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUID PRESSURE; LABORATORY METHOD; OSMOSIS; POROUS MEDIUM; SHALE; SUBSURFACE FLOW; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 65349186556     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006450     Document Type: Article

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