Stochastic simulation of aquifer heterogeneity in a layered basalt aquifer system, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 353, Issue , 2002, Pages 225-247

  Welhan, John A ^a   Clemo, Thomas M ^b   Gégo, Edith L ^c  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BASALT; BOREHOLES; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LITHOLOGY; SIMULATED ANNEALING; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; WELL LOGGING; WELL TESTING;

AQUIFER HETEROGENEITY; FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; GEOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS; MULTIPLE INDICATORS; SIMULATION APPROACH; STOCHASTIC APPROACH; STOCHASTIC REALIZATION; STOCHASTIC SIMULATIONS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

AQUIFER; BASALT; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; HETEROGENEITY; LAVA FLOW; MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEDIMENTATION; SIMULATION; VARIOGRAM;

IDAHO; SNAKE RIVER PLAIN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870920402     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2353-1.225     Document Type: Article

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