A comprehensive strategy for understanding flow in carbonate aquifer

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Publication Date

January 2003

Publication Title

Karst Modeling, Special Publication 5

Volume Number

1

Issue Number

1

Abstract

Studies of carbonate aquifers usually either concentrate on sampling the channel flow (e.g. sink to spring tracer testing, spring monitoring) or on sampling the non-channel flow (e.g. borehole measurements). A comprehensive approach is advocated here, integrating both sources of information, as well as measuring the porosity and permeability of the unfractured rock. Representative sampling can be achieved by treating carbonates as triple porosity aquifers, with one-, two-, and three-dimensional porosity elements. The division of carbonate aquifers into "karstic" or "non-karstic" types is unwarranted.

Keywords

Carbonate Aquifers, Channel Flow, Non-Channel Flow, Karstic, Non-Karstic

Geographic Subject

Charlottesville, Virginia

Document Type

Article

Language

English

Identifier

SFS0055827_00001

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