Evaporation from Fractures Exposed at the Land Surface: Impact of Gas-Phase Convection on Salt Accumulation

Dynamic Fluids and Transport Through in Fractured Rock

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 151-164

  Weisbrod, Noam ^a   Pillersdorf, Modi ^a   Dragila, Maria ^b   Graham, Chris ^b   Cassidy, James ^b   Cooper, Clay A ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater flow Mathematical models; Rocks Permeability Mathematical models

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; EVAPORATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HEAT CONVECTION;

ARID CONDITIONS; ATMOSPHERIC AIR; FRACTURE SURFACES; FRACTURED FORMATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LATERAL MOVEMENT; LOW PERMEABILITY; SALT ACCUMULATIONS;

FRACTURE;

EID: 84952944681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1029/162GM14     Document Type: Chapter

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