Crude oil at the Bemidji site: 25 years of monitoring, modeling, and understanding

Ground Water

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 706-726

  Essaid, Hedeff I ^a   Bekins, Barbara A ^a   Herkelrath, William N ^a   Delin, Geoffrey N ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC BIODEGRADATION; BEMIDJI , MINNESOTA; BIODEGRADATION RATE; ELECTRON ACCEPTOR; FATE AND TRANSPORT; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FIELD SCALE; FIELD STUDIES; FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; HYDROCARBON CONTAMINATION; HYDROCARBON PLUME; HYDROCARBON REMOVAL; LONG-TERM BEHAVIOR; MASS BALANCE; MICROBIAL POPULATIONS; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY GROUPS; NATURAL ATTENUATION; NATURAL PROCESS; OIL FLOW; RESIDUAL OIL SATURATION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; VAPOR DIFFUSION; WATER FLOWS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CRUDE OIL; DEGRADATION; DISSOLUTION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; HYDROCARBONS; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIPHASE FLOW; REACTION RATES; WATER VAPOR;

BIODEGRADATION;

GROUND WATER; PETROLEUM;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIODEGRADATION; CRUDE OIL; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRON; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; HYDROCARBON; HYSTERESIS; LIMITING FACTOR; MASS BALANCE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTION CONTROL; POLLUTION EFFECT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; REMEDIATION; RESEARCH WORK; SATURATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; VOLATILIZATION; VOLUME; WATER FLOW;

CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; REVIEW; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTANT;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; MINNESOTA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PETROLEUM; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

BEMIDJI; MINNESOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052247679     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2009.00654.x     Document Type: Review

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