The utility of gravity and water-level monitoring at alluvial aquifer wells in southern Arizona

GEOPHYSICS

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Pool, D R ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEOLOGY; WATER LEVELS;

ALLUVIAL AQUIFER SYSTEMS; NEGATIVE CORRELATION; ONE-DIMENSIONAL FEATURES; UNCONFINED AQUIFERS; UNCONFINED CONDITIONS; WATER LEVEL CHANGES; WATER LEVEL MONITORING; WATER LEVEL VARIATIONS;

AQUIFERS;

CONFINED AQUIFER; EPHEMERAL STREAM; GRAVITY SURVEY; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; INFILTRATION; MONITORING SYSTEM; STREAMFLOW; WATER LEVEL;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84958548662     PISSN: 00168033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1190/1.2980395     Document Type: Article

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