Waste containment: Strategies & performance

Australian Geomechanics Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 1-24

  Benson, C H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FROST EFFECTS; SOLVENTS;

COMPACTED CLAY LINER; COMPOSITE BARRIERS; LEACHATE COLLECTION; LEACHATE COLLECTION SYSTEMS; MATERIALS OF CONSTRUCTIONS; NONWOVEN GEOTEXTILES; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; WASTE CONTAINMENT SYSTEMS;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

EID: 84930196391     PISSN: 08189110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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