Mobilization and transport of in situ colloids during drainage and imbibition of partially saturated sediments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Cheng, Tao ^a   Saiers, James E ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-WATER; COLLOID CONCENTRATION; COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; DRAINAGE RATE; IN-SITU; LABORATORY COLUMNS; MINERAL COLLOIDS; MINERAL SURFACES; NATURAL SEDIMENTS; NEW MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARTIALLY SATURATED; PORE WATERS; POROUS MEDIUM; REDEPOSITION; SAND PACK; TRANSIENT FLOW; VADOSE ZONE; WATER RETENTION;

AIR; EFFLUENTS; EXPERIMENTS; IONIC STRENGTH; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MINERALS; POROUS MATERIALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SILICATE MINERALS; WATER;

COLLOID CHEMISTRY;

AIR-WATER INTERACTION; ARID REGION; COLLOID; EFFLUENT; IMBIBITION; IONIC COMPOSITION; KINETICS; MASS TRANSPORT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOBILIZATION; POREWATER; POROUS MEDIUM; REDEPOSITION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SOIL DRAINAGE; TRANSIENT FLOW; VADOSE ZONE; WATER RETENTION; WETTING FRONT;

EID: 70349781852     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007494     Document Type: Article

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