Mixing induced reactive transport in fractured crystalline rocks

Applied Geochemistry

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 479-489

  Martinez Landa, Lurdes ^a   Carrera, Jesus ^b   Dentz, Marco ^b   Fernàndez Garcia, Daniel ^a   Nardí, Albert ^b   Saaltink, Maarten W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND WATER RESEARCH   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE EFFECTS; ENHANCED MIXING; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; FRACTURED MEDIA; FRACTURED ROCK; GEOCHEMICAL REACTION; HOST MEDIUMS; INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS; NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL; PRECIPITATION REACTION; RADIONUCLIDE CONCENTRATION; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; RESIDENCE TIME; SOLUTE RETENTION; STRONG HETEROGENEITIES;

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; MIXING; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; RADIOACTIVE WASTES; RADIOISOTOPES; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRYSTALLINE ROCK; DILUTION; FRACTURE; GEOCHEMICAL METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; HOMOGENEITY; IMMOBILIZATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MIXING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RADIOACTIVE WASTE; RADIONUCLIDE; REACTIVE TRANSPORT; SOLUTE; WASTE DISPOSAL;

EID: 84855592364     PISSN: 08832927     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeochem.2011.09.016     Document Type: Article

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