Hydrochemical evolution within a large alluvial groundwater resource overlying a shallow coal seam gas reservoir

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 523, Issue , 2015, Pages 233-252

  Owen, Daniel D R ^a   Cox, Malcolm E ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquifer interactions; Coal seam gas; Inverse modelling; Multivariate statistics; Sodium bicarbonate groundwater

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; COAL; COAL BED METHANE; COAL DEPOSITS; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; MIXING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; POSITIVE IONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); SALINE WATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SODIUM BICARBONATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; CARBONATE PRECIPITATION; COAL SEAM GAS; HYDROCHEMICAL EVOLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGICAL SETTINGS; INVERSE MODELLING; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICS;

RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS);

ALUMINUM OXIDE; ALUMINUM SILICATE; BICARBONATE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALCIUM ION; CALCIUM SULFATE; CARBONIC ACID; CHLORIDE ION; FERRIC HYDROXIDE; GROUND WATER; RAIN; SODIUM;

ALLUVIAL DEPOSIT; AQUIFER; COAL SEAM; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SALINIZATION;

ALLUVIUM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GAS; GAS FIELD; GEOLOGY; HYDROCHEMICAL EVOLUTION; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SALINITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDIMENT; WATER SUPPLY; WEATHERING;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84926627229     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.03.115     Document Type: Article

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