On water seepage and fast preferential flow in heterogeneous, unsaturated rock fractures
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Contaminant Hydrology
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0169-7722
DOI: 10.1016/s0169-7722(97)00049-1