Field experiment provides ground truth for surface nuclear magnetic resonance measurement

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Knight, Rosemary ^a   Grunewald, Elliot ^a   Irons, Trevor ^b   Dlubac, Katherine ^a   Song, Yiqiao ^c   Bachman, Henry N ^d   Grau, Ben ^d   Walsh, Dave ^e   Abraham, Jared D ^b   Cannia, Jim ^f  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^c SCHLUMBERGER DOLL RESEARCH   (United States)

^d SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

^e Vista Clara Inc   (United States)

^f U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GEOPHYSICS; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; WATER;

CRITICAL STEPS; DEAD TIME; DRILL CUTTINGS; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FRESH WATER; FRESH WATER RESOURCES; GEOLOGIC MATERIALS; GEOPHYSICAL METHODS; GEOPHYSICAL TECHNIQUES; GROUND TRUTH; GROUNDWATER AQUIFER; INHOMOGENEITIES; NMR DATA; NMR RELAXATION; NON-INVASIVE; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; RELAXATION PARAMETER; SURFACE NMR; SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC LOGGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

AQUIFER CHARACTERIZATION; FIELD SURVEY; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INHOMOGENEITY; LITHOLOGY; MAGNETIC FIELD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; DATA SET; FIELD METHOD; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE;

OGALLALA AQUIFER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84863027682     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050167     Document Type: Article

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