Multidisciplinary Characterization of Contaminant Transport in Fractured Rock -- Mirror Lake, New Hampshire
A USGS scientist measuring the water level in a well with a steel tape to check the accuracy of automated measurements. Data from the data acquisition system were downloaded at the same time
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Early Toxics Program research on point source contamination in fractured rock aquifers was organized around research activities at the Mirror Lake, New Hampshire research site. This site is uncontaminated and characterized by fractured crystalline rock. It lies within the Hubbard's Brook Experimental Forest administered by the U.S. Forest Service. Research conducted at the site has focused on understanding the processes and factors that affect how water flows in the fracture networks developed in such aquifers. The research has also emphasized development of methods to characterize subsurface fracture networks and the properties that affect flow and contaminant transport including noninvasive geophysical techniques. Numerous field tracer experiments have been conducted at the site. Knowledge and methods developed at this site have been generalized and tested at numerous other fractured rock sites across the Nation.
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- Transport
Phenomena in Fractured Rock
- Hydrology
of Fractured Rocks
- Geophysical Research
- Borehole Imaging as Part of a Hydro-Fracing Experiment
- Modified Square-Array Resistivity Method for Imaging Fractured Rock
- Borehole Radar Monitoring of a Steam-Injection Remediation Pilot Study, Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine, 2004
- Borehole Radar Monitoring of a Steam-Injection Remediation Pilot Study, Loring Air Force Base, Limestone, Maine, 2003
- Radar and electrical-resistivity monitoring of landfill leachate, University of Connecticut landfill, Storrs, Connecticut
- Borehole
Geophysics as Applied to Geohydrology
- Using
Seismic Tomography to Characterize Fractured Bedrock
- Evaluation
of Lithology and Structural Geology on Ground-Water Movement in the
Mirror Lake Area in Grafton County, New Hampshire
- For additional information about the Mirror Lake Toxics Project please
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- The effect of terrace geology on ground-water movement and on the interaction of ground water and surface water on a mountainside near Mirror Lake, New Hampshire, USA: Winter, T.C., Buso, D.C., Shattuck, P.C., Harte, P.T., Vroblesky, D.A., and Goode, D.J., 2008, Hydrological Processes, v. 22, no. 1, p. 21-32, doi:10.1002/hyp.6593.
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