Diesel transport monitoring in simulated unconfined aquifers using miniature resistivity arrays

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 107-114

  Sentenac, Philippe ^a   Montinaro, Antonio ^a   Kulessa, Bernd ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contaminant monitoring; Contaminant transport; Diesel; Resistivity

Indexed keywords

2D INVERSION; AQUIFER MODEL; AQUITARDS; BULK RESISTIVITY; CAPILLARY RISE; CONTAMINANT MONITORING; CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; DIESEL INJECTION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; LATERAL SPREADING; PLUME MIGRATION; RESISTIVITY ARRAYS; SAND BODY; SATURATED ZONE; SITE INVESTIGATIONS; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; UNSATURATED ZONE; WATER TABLES;

AQUIFERS; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; MICROELECTRODES; MONITORING; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TOMOGRAPHY;

CONTAMINATION;

CAPILLARITY; DIESEL; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; PLUME; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POLLUTION MONITORING; SAND; TOMOGRAPHY; UNCONFINED AQUIFER; VADOSE ZONE; WATER TABLE;

EID: 77953901907     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0325-9     Document Type: Article

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