A salt tracer test monitored with surface ERT to detect preferential flow and transport paths in fractured/karstified limestones

Geophysics

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Robert, Tanguy ^a,b   Caterina, David ^a,b   Deceuster, John ^c   Kaufmann, Olivier ^c   Nguyen, Frédéric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fractures; Monitoring; Resistivity; Time lapse; Tomography

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LIME; LIMESTONE; MONITORING; POTABLE WATER; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SURFACE TESTING; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; GROUNDWATER FLOW DIRECTIONS; HYDROGEOLOGICAL RESEARCH; QUANTITATIVE EXPERIMENTS; RELATIVE SENSITIVITY; RESISTIVITY CHANGES; TIME-LAPSE;

FRACTURE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA ACQUISITION; DATA QUALITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; FRACTURE ZONE; GROUNDWATER FLOW; KARSTIFICATION; LIMESTONE; MATRIX; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; TOMOGRAPHY; TRACER; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

BELGIUM;

EID: 84858588591     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/geo2011-0313.1     Document Type: Article

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