A new hydrogeologic model to predict anthropogenic uplift of Venice

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Teatini, P ^a   Castelletto, N ^a   Ferronato, M ^a   Gambolati, G ^a   Tosi, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3D RECONSTRUCTION; BOTTOM HOLE; EXPLORATION WELLS; FINITE-ELEMENT PREDICTIONS; GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS; INJECTION PRESSURES; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MEAN SEA LEVEL; MULTI-CHANNEL SEISMIC; NEW MODEL; NUMERICAL STUDIES; OVER-PRESSURES; OVERPRESSURE; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; QUATERNARY DEPOSITS; RELIABLE ASSESSMENT; SINGLE WELL; SPACE AND TIME; VERTICAL DISPLACEMENTS; WATER VOLUMES;

AQUIFERS; HYDROGEOLOGY; LAKES; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; WELLS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; AQUIFER; BOREHOLE; CALIBRATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HYDROGEOLOGY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; PRESSURE EFFECT; PUMPING; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTATION; SEISMICITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPLIFT;

ALPS; APENNINES; ITALY; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE;

EID: 83455205903     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010900     Document Type: Article

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