Noninvasive observations of flow patterns in locally heterogeneous mine soils using neutron radiation

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 362-372

  Badorreck, Annika ^a,b   Gerke, Horst H ^b   Vontobel, P ^c  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^c PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CONTENT; DUAL POROSITY MODEL; FLOW PATH; MATRIX; MATRIX PORE; MINE SOILS; MULTI-STEP; NATURAL SOILS; NEUTRON IMAGING; NEUTRON RADIATIONS; NEUTRON TOMOGRAPHY; NON EQUILIBRIUM; PORE NETWORKS; PRESSURE HEADS; RESIDUAL WATERS; SATURATED CONDITIONS; SOIL CORES; SOIL MATRICES; SOIL SAMPLE; STEADY-STATE INFILTRATION; TIME SEQUENCES; WATER FLOWS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW PATTERNS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; NEUTRON RADIOGRAPHY; NEUTRONS; RADIOLOGY; SOILS; TOMOGRAPHY; WATER CONTENT;

INFILTRATION;

FLOW PATTERN; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; INFILTRATION; LIGNITE; MINE; POROSITY; RADIOGRAPHY; SOIL PROFILE; TENSIOMETER; TOMOGRAPHY; VISUALIZATION; WATER FLOW;

EID: 77955447178     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2009.0100     Document Type: Article

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