Multiple working transport hypotheses in a heterogeneous glacial aquifer system

Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 105-119

  Cypher, Joseph A ^a   Lemke, Lawrence D ^b  

^a Integrated Oil Company   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; AQUIFER SYSTEMS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; CONFINED AQUIFERS; CONTAMINANT MIGRATION; GROUND WATER FLOW; HETEROGENEOUS AQUIFERS; HISTORICAL INFORMATION; HYDRAULIC FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; MANUFACTURING WASTES; MICHIGAN; MODFLOW; NATURAL CONDITIONS; SITE HYDROGEOLOGY; SOURCE LOCATION; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; TRANSIENT FLOW;

AQUIFERS; ETHERS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; LOCATION; SEWAGE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER; WATER WELLS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; ARCHITECTURE; CALIBRATION; GLACIATION; HETEROGENEITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; MODELING; PUMPING;

MICHIGAN; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHTENAW COUNTY;

EID: 68949163967     PISSN: 10693629     EISSN: 17456592     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6592.2009.01245.x     Document Type: Article

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