Determination of hydraulic conductivity from grain-size distribution for different depositional environments

Groundwater

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 399-413

  Rosas, Jorge ^a   Lopez, Oliver ^a   Missimer, Thomas M ^a   Coulibaly, Kapo M ^b   Dehwah, Abdullah H A ^a   Sesler, Kathryn ^a   Lujan, Luis R ^a   Mantilla, David ^a  

^a KING ABDULLAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b SCHLUMBERGER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEACHES; DEPOSITION; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LITHOLOGY; SEDIMENTS;

DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; EMPIRICAL ESTIMATIONS; EMPIRICAL METHOD; GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; MODIFIED EQUATION; RIVER ENVIRONMENT; SEDIMENT SAMPLES;

SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; RIVER SYSTEM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

CLASSIFICATION; HYDRODYNAMICS; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; SEDIMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; WATER FLOW;

GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; POROSITY; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84899946641     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gwat.12078     Document Type: Article

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