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Hydraulic Properties of Rocks

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Hydraulic properties of water bearing formations are important as they govern their groundwater storage and transmitting characteristics. These are described below.

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  • Domenico PA, Schwartz FW (1998) Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology. 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, New York.

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  • Kresic N (2007) Hydrogeology and Groundwater Modeling. 2nd ed., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

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  • Schwartz FW, Zhang H (2003) Fundamentals of Ground Water. John Wiley & Sons Inc., New York.

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Singhal, B.B.S., Gupta, R.P. (2010). Hydraulic Properties of Rocks. In: Applied Hydrogeology of Fractured Rocks. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8799-7_8

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