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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Water Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

    Saeid Eslamian & Ali Reza Gohari

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

    Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari

  3. Urban Engineering Department, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

    Negin Sadeghi

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  1. Saeid Eslamian
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Correspondence to Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari .

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  1. Sidney, BC, Canada

    Peter T. Bobrowsky

  2. London, UK

    Brian Marker

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Eslamian, S., Gohari, A.R., Ostad-Ali-Askari, K., Sadeghi, N. (2018). Reservoirs. In: Bobrowsky, P.T., Marker, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73568-9_236

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