A Model of Aquifer Heterogeneity

Moltyaner, G. L.

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G. L. Moltyaner⁴

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Groundwater modelling has become a reliable tool for solving groundwater budgeting and contamination problems. It has long been recognized, however, that the degree of reliability of this tool varies in proportion to the amount of information available on the heterogeneity of the flow system.

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Environmental Research Branch, Chalk River Laboratories, AECL, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada, KOJ 1J0
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Department of Geo-Resources, IST, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Amílcar Soares
Department of Hydraulics and Environmental Engineering, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Jaime Gómez-Hernandez
FSS Consultants SA, Geneva, Switzerland
Roland Froidevaux

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Moltyaner, G.L. (1997). A Model of Aquifer Heterogeneity. In: Soares, A., Gómez-Hernandez, J., Froidevaux, R. (eds) geoENV I — Geostatistics for Environmental Applications. Quantitative Geology and Geostatistics, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1675-8_11

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