Influences of filling abandoned salt caverns with alkali wastes on surface subsidence

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 6939-6950

  Shi, Xilin ^a   Li, Yinping ^a,b   Yang, Chunhe ^a,c   Xu, Yulong ^a   Ma, Hongling ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Ji, Guodong ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b Jiangsu Jingshen Salt Chemical Stock Company Limited   (China)

^c CHONGQING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Abandoned salt caverns; Filling with alkali wastes; Free draining of brine; Salt mine; Surface subsidence

Indexed keywords

ABANDONED MINES; CAVES; COMPRESSION TESTING; FILLING; SALT DEPOSITS; SUBSIDENCE; WASTES;

APPLICATION PROCEDURES; DEPOSITION CHARACTERISTICS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; DISTRIBUTION MODELS; LABORATORY SIMULATION; PREDICTION METHODS; SALT CAVERNS; SURFACE SUBSIDENCE;

SALT MINES;

EID: 84939978054     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-015-4135-y     Document Type: Article

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