Line-Source Multi-Tracer Test for Assessing High Groundwater Velocity

Ground Water

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 892-897

  Magal, Einat ^a   Weisbrod, Noam ^a   Yakirevich, Alexander ^a   Kurtzman, Daniel ^b   Yechieli, Yoseph ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEAD SEA; DYE TRACER; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLOW DIRECTION; GD-DTPA; GROUNDWATER FLOW DIRECTIONS; GROUNDWATER VELOCITY; HIGH WATER; HYDRAULIC GRADIENTS; INJECTION SYSTEMS; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; LONG LINE; LONG PULSE; MULTI-TRACER TESTS; OBSERVATION WELLS; PIPE SEGMENTS; RHENIUM OXIDE; TRACER INJECTIONS; TRACER TESTS;

AQUIFERS; GADOLINIUM; GROUNDWATER FLOW; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; RHENIUM; SODIUM;

WATER INJECTION;

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

AQUIFER; DYE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HETEROGENEITY; RHENIUM; SUBSURFACE FLOW; TRACER;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ISRAEL; METHODOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW; WATER SUPPLY;

CONTRAST MEDIA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ISRAEL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER SUPPLY;

DEAD SEA;

EID: 78149307686     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2010.00707.x     Document Type: Article

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