Fracture skin properties and effects on solute transport: Geotechnical and environmental implications

2nd North American Rock Mechanics Symposium, NARM 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 1329-1335

  Sharp, John M ^a   Kreisel, Ilan ^a   Milliken, Kitty L ^a   MacE, Robert E ^b   Robinson, Neville I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; ENHANCED RECOVERY; IRON COMPOUNDS; MANGANESE COMPOUNDS; POROSITY; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; ROCK MECHANICS; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS; SOIL TESTING; SOLS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; VOLCANIC ROCKS; WALL ROCK;

ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL MODELS; ENHANCED OIL RECOVERY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; FRACTURE CHARACTERISTICS; MEAN PORE DIAMETERS; MINERAL PRECIPITATE; OPTICAL PHOTOMICROGRAPHY; ROUGHNESS COEFFICIENT;

FRACTURE;

EID: 85014622460     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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