The Unusual and Large Drawdown Response of Buried-Valley Aquifers to Pumping

Ground Water

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 207-215

  Van Der Kamp, Garth ^a   Maathuis, Harm ^a  

^a CAMECO CORPORATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL DEPOSITS; NARROW STRIPS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OBSERVATION WELLS; PUMPING TESTS; SASKATCHEWAN , CANADA; STORAGE COEFFICIENT; TRANSMISSIVITY; TYPE CURVES;

HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; PUMPS; STRIP METAL; WELLS;

AQUIFERS;

GROUND WATER;

DRAWDOWN; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PUMPING; RADIAL FLOW; TRANSMISSIVITY; UNCONFINED AQUIFER;

ARTICLE; CANADA; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER SUPPLY;

GROUNDWATER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SASKATCHEWAN; WATER SUPPLY;

CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN;

EID: 84857688927     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2011.00833.x     Document Type: Article

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