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General References

Batu, V., 1999. Aquifer Hydraulics: A Comprehensive Guide to Hydrogeologic Data Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 727p.

Bear, J., 1979. Hydraulics of Groundwater, McGraw-Hill, New York, 569p.

Butler, J.J., Jr., 1998. The Design, Performance, and Analysis of Slug Tests, Lewis Publishers, New York, 252p. (Errata)

Domenico, P.A. and F.W. Schwartz, 1990. Physical and Chemical Hydrogeology, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 824 p.

Driscoll, F.G., 1986. Groundwater and Wells (2nd ed.), Johnson Filtration Systems, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota, 1089p.

Ferris, J.G., D.B. Knowles, R.H. Brown and R.W. Stallman, 1962. Theory of aquifer tests, U.S. Geol. Surv. Water-Supply Paper 1536 E, 174p.

Fetter, C.W., 2001. Applied Hydrogeology (4th ed.), Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 598p.

Kruseman, G.P. and N.A. DeRidder, 1990. Analysis and Evaluation of Pumping Test Data (2nd ed.), Publication 47, Intern. Inst. for Land Reclamation and Improvement, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 370p.

Morris, D.A. and A.I. Johnson, 1967. Summary of hydrologic and physical properties of rock and soil materials as analyzed by the Hydrologic Laboratory of the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Geol. Surv. Water-Supply Paper 1839-D, 42p.

Streltsova, T.D., 1988. Well Testing in Heterogeneous Formations, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 413p.

Pumping Tests

General

Bourdet, D., 2002. Well Test Analysis: The Use of Advanced Interpretation Models, Elsevier, New York, 426p.

Streltsova, T.D., 1988. Well Testing in Heterogeneous Formations, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 413p.

Confined Aquifers

Cooper, H.H. and C.E. Jacob, 1946. A generalized graphical method for evaluating formation constants and summarizing well field history, Am. Geophys. Union Trans., vol. 27, pp. 526-534.

Hantush, M.S., 1962. Flow of ground water in sands of nonuniform thickness; 3. Flow to wells, Jour. Geophys. Res., vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 1527-1534.

Murdoch, L.C., 1994. Transient analyses of an interceptor trench, Water Resources Research, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 3023-3031.

Papadopulos, I.S. and H.H. Cooper, 1967. Drawdown in a well of large diameter, Water Resources Research, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 241-244.

Theis, C.V., 1935. The relation between the lowering of the piezometric surface and the rate and duration of discharge of a well using groundwater storage, Am. Geophys. Union Trans., vol. 16, pp. 519-524.

Unconfined Aquifers

Moench, A.F., 1993. Computation of type curves for flow to partially penetrating wells in water-table aquifers, Ground Water, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 966-971.

Moench, A.F., 1996. Flow to a well in a water-table aquifer: an improved Laplace transform solution, Ground Water, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 593-596.

Moench, A.F., 1997. Flow to a well of finite diameter in a homogeneous, anisotropic water table aquifer, Water Resources Research, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1397-1407.

Neuman, S.P., 1974. Effect of partial penetration on flow in unconfined aquifers considering delayed gravity response, Water Resources Research, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 303-312.

Streltsova, T.D., 1974. Drawdown in compressible unconfined aquifer, Jour. of the Hyd. Div., Proc. of the Am. Soc. of Civil Eng., vol. 100, no. HY11, pp. 1601-1616.

Leaky Aquifers

Hantush, M.S., 1960. Modification of the theory of leaky aquifers, Jour. of Geophys. Res., vol. 65, no. 11, pp. 3713-3725.

Hantush, M.S. and C.E. Jacob, 1955. Non-steady radial flow in an infinite leaky aquifer, Am. Geophys. Union Trans., vol. 36, pp. 95-100.

Moench, A.F., 1985. Transient flow to a large-diameter well in an aquifer with storative semiconfining layers, Water Resources Research, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 1121-1131.

Neuman, S.P. and P.A. Witherspoon, 1969. Theory of flow in a confined two aquifer system, Water Resources Research, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 803-816.

Fractured Aquifers

Gringarten, A.C. and H.J. Ramey, 1974. Unsteady state pressure distributions created by a well with a single horizontal fracture, partial penetration or restricted entry, Soc. Petrol. Engrs. J., pp. 413-426.

Gringarten, A.C. and P.A. Witherspoon, 1972. A method of analyzing pump test data from fractured aquifers, Int. Soc. Rock Mechanics and Int. Assoc. Eng. Geol., Proc. Symp. Rock Mechanics, Stuttgart, vol. 3-B, pp. 1-9.

Moench, A.F., 1984. Double-porosity models for a fissured groundwater reservoir with fracture skin, Water Resources Research, vol. 20, no. 7, pp. 831-846.

Step Tests

Jacob, C.E., 1947. Drawdown test to determine effective radius of artesian well, Trans. Amer. Soc. of Civil Engrs., vol. 112, paper 2321, pp. 1047-1064.

Ramey, H.J., 1982. Well-loss function and the skin effect: A review. In: Narasimhan, T.N. (ed.) Recent trends in hydrogeology, Geol. Soc. Am., special paper 189, pp. 265-271.

Rorabaugh, M.J., 1953. Graphical and theoretical analysis of step-drawdown test of artesian well, Proc. Amer. Soc. Civil Engrs., vol. 79, separate no. 362, 23 pp.

Slug Tests

General

Butler, J.J., Jr., 1998. The Design, Performance, and Analysis of Slug Tests, Lewis Publishers, New York, 252p. (Errata)

Brown, D.L. T.N. Narasimhan and Z. Demir, 1995. An evaluation of the Bouwer and Rice method of slug test analysis, Water Resources Research, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 1239-1246.

Confined Aquifers

Cooper, H.H., J.D. Bredehoeft and S.S. Papadopulos, 1967. Response of a finite-diameter well to an instantaneous charge of water, Water Resources Research, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 263-269.

Hvorslev, M.J., 1951. Time Lag and Soil Permeability in Ground-Water Observations, Bull. No. 36, Waterways Exper. Sta. Corps of Engrs, U.S. Army, Vicksburg, Mississippi, pp. 1-50.

Hyder, Z., J.J. Butler, Jr., C.D. McElwee and W. Liu, 1994. Slug tests in partially penetrating wells, Water Resources Research, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 2945-2957.

Ross, B., 1985. Theory of the oscillating slug test in deep wells in Memoirs 17^th Int. Congr. Hydrogeol. Rocks Low Permeability, vol. 17, no. 2, Int. Assoc. Hydrogeologists, pp. 44-51.

Unconfined Aquifers

Bouwer, H., 1989. The Bouwer and Rice slug test--an update, Ground Water, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 304-309.

Bouwer, H. and R.C. Rice, 1976. A slug test method for determining hydraulic conductivity of unconfined aquifers with completely or partially penetrating wells, Water Resources Research, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 423-428.

Hyder, Z., J.J. Butler, Jr., C.D. McElwee and W. Liu, 1994. Slug tests in partially penetrating wells, Water Resources Research, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 2945-2957.

Springer, R.K. and L.W. Gelhar, 1991. Characterization of large-scale aquifer heterogeneity in glacial outwash by analysis of slug tests with oscillatory response, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S. Geol. Surv. Water Res. Invest. Rep. 91-4034, pp. 36-40.

Zlotnik, V., 1994. Interpretation of slug and packer tests in anisotropic aquifers, Ground Water, vol. 32, no. 5, pp. 761-766.

Derivative Analysis

Bourdet, D., Ayoub, J.A. and Y.M. Pirard, 1989. Use of pressure derivative in well-test interpretation, SPE Formation Evaluation, June 1989, pp. 293-302.

Bourdet, D., Whittle, T.M., Douglas, A.A. and Y.M. Pirard, 1983. A new set of type curves simplifies well test analysis, World Oil, May 1983, pp. 95-106.

Spane, F.A., Jr., and S.K. Wurstner, 1993. DERIV: A computer program for calculating pressure derivatives for use in hydraulic test analysis, Ground Water, vol. 31, no. 5, pp. 814-822.

Diagnostic Plots

Horne, R. N., 1995. Modern Well Test Analysis: A Computer-Aided Approach, 2nd. ed., Petroway, Palo Alto, 257p.

Streltsova, T.D., 1988. Well Testing in Heterogeneous Formations, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 413p.

Tidal Effects

Ferris, J.G., 1951. Cyclic fluctuations of water level as a basis for determining aquifer transmissivity, Intl. Assoc. Sci. Hydrology Publ. 33, pp. 148-155.

Ferris, J.G., D.B. Knowles, R.H. Brown and R.W. Stallman, 1962. Theory of aquifer tests, U.S. Geol. Surv. Water-Supply Paper 1536 E, 174p.

Jiao, J.J. and Z. Tang, 1999. An analytical solution of groundwater response to tidal fluctuation in a leaky confined aquifer, Water Resources Research, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 747-751.

Jiao, J.J. and Z. Tang, 2001. Reply to comment by R. E. Volker and Q. Zhang on "An analytical solution of groundwater response to tidal fluctuation in a leaky confined aquifer" by J. J. Jiao and Z. Tang, Water Resources Research, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 187-188.

Milldam, N.P. and B.L. Howes, 1995. A comparison of methods to determine K in a shallow coastal aquifer, Ground Water, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 49-57.

Todd, D.K., 1980. Groundwater Hydrology, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 535p.

Trefry, M.G. and C.D. Johnston, 1998. Pumping test analysis for a tidally forced aquifer, Ground Water, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 427-433.

Volker, R.E. and Q. Zhang, 2001. Comment on "An analytical solution of groundwater response to tidal fluctuation in a leaky confined aquifer" by J.J. Jiao and Z. Tang, Water Resources Research, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 185-186.

Groundwater Mounding

Hantush, M.S., 1967. Growth and decay of groundwater-mounds in response to uniform percolation, Water Resources Research, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 227-234.

Noordbergum Effect

Burbey, T.J., 1999. Effects of horizontal strain in estimating specific storage and compaction in confined and leaky aquifer systems, Hydrogeology Journal, vol. 7, pp. 521-532.

Hsieh, P.A., 1996. Deformation-induced changes in hydraulic head during ground-water withdrawal, Ground Water, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 1082-1089.

Kim, J.-M. and R.R. Parizek, 1997. Numerical simulation of the Noordbergum effect resulting from groundwater pumping in a layered aquifer system, Journal of Hydrology, 202, pp. 231-243.

Rodrigues, J.D., 1983. The Noordbergum effect and the characterization of aquitards at the Rio Maion mining project, Ground Water, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 200-207.

Verruijt, A., 1969. Elastic storage of aquifers. In: R.J.M. DeWeist (ed), Flow Through Porous Media, Academic Press, New York, pp. 331-376.