Integrated multi-scale characterization of ground-water flow and chemical transport in fractured crystalline rock at the Mirror Lake Site, New Hampshire

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 171, Issue , 2007, Pages 201-225

  Shapiro, Allen M ^a   Hsieh, Paul A ^b   Burton, William C ^a   Walsh, Gregory J ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

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EID: 85001009217     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1029/171GM15     Document Type: Chapter

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