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Although mechanism of groundwater flow through porous media is well understood but many uncertainties exist about the flow of water and transport of solutes in fractured rocks. This has acquired greater interest as low permeability formations form potential repositories for high level waste.
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Singhal, B.B.S., Gupta, R.P. (2010). Principles of Groundwater Flow and Solute Transport. In: Applied Hydrogeology of Fractured Rocks. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8799-7_7
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