The usefulness of outcrop analogue air permeameter measurements for analyzing aquifer heterogeneity: Quantifying outcrop hydraulic conductivity and its spatial variability

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 5176-5188

  Rogiers, Bart ^a,b   Beerten, Koen ^a   Smeekens, Tuur ^b   Mallants, Dirk ^c   Gedeon, Matej ^a   Huysmans, Marijke ^b,d   Batelaan, Okke ^b,d,e   Dassargues, Alain ^b,f  

^a BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^e FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Air permeameter; Anisotropy; Hydraulic conductivity; Sedimentary structures; Spatial variability; Upscaling

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS MATERIALS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

AIR PERMEABILITY MEASUREMENT; GROUNDWATER FLOW AND CONTAMINANT TRANSPORTS; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNITS; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SMALL SCALE VARIABILITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; UPSCALING;

SEDIMENTS;

AIR PERMEABILITY; ANISOTROPY; AQUIFER; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PERMEAMETER; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; UPSCALING;

BELGIUM;

EID: 84908106306     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10007     Document Type: Article

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