Flow-path textures and mineralogy in tuffs of the unsaturated zone

Geophysical Monograph Series

Volumn 113, Issue , 1999, Pages 159-184

  Levy, Schön ^a   Chipera, Steve ^a   Woldegabriel, Giday ^a   Fabryka Martin, June ^a   Roach, Jeffrey ^a   Sweetkind, Donald ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 85040256451     PISSN: 00658448     EISSN: 23288779     Source Type: Book Series    
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