Modeling fine-scale geological heterogeneity-examples of sand lenses in tills

Groundwater

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 692-705

  Kessler, Timo Christian ^a,b   Comunian, Alessandro ^c   Oriani, Fabio ^d   Renard, Philippe ^d   Nilsson, Bertel ^b   Klint, Knud Erik ^b   Bjerg, Poul Løgstrup ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF DENMARK AND GREENLAND   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIVALENT PERMEABILITY; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; HIGH HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITIES; MULTIPLE-POINT STATISTICS; REALISTIC CONDITIONS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT MODEL; SPATIAL CORRELATIONS; TRANSITION PROBABILITIES;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SAND;

ADVECTION; GEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; HETEROGENEITY; MAPPING; MODELING; OUTCROP; PERMEABILITY; PROBABILITY; SAND; SIMULATION; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

SILICON DIOXIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; SEDIMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EID: 84883551508     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.01015.x     Document Type: Article

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