TY - BOOK AU - ED - TI - Hydrogeology : principles and practice SN - 9780470656624 AV - GB1003.2.H57 2014 PY - 2014/// CY - Chichester, West Sussex : PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - hydrogeology N1 - previously published as 2nd ed., in 2014; Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction Early examples of groundwater exploitation History of hydrogeology The water cycle Groundwater as a natural resource Management and protection of groundwater resources in the United Kingdom European Union Water Framework Directive Management and protection of groundwater resources in the United States Groundwater resources in developing countries 2. Physical hydrogeology Porosity Hydraulic conductivity Isotropy and homogeneity Aquifers, aquitards and aquicludes Darcy's Law Hydraulic properties of fractured rocks Karst aquifer properties Groundwater potential and hydraulic head Groundwater flow direction Water table and potentiometric surface maps Groundwater conditions Confined aquifers Unconfined aquifers Equations of groundwater flow One-dimensional groundwater flow problems Classification of springs and intermittent streams Transboundary aquifer systems Submarine groundwater discharge Groundwater resources of the world Hydrogeological environments of the United Kingdom Sedimentary rocks Metamorphic rocks Igneous rocks 3. Geological processes driving fluid flow Topography-driven flow Compaction-driven fluid flow Variable-density driven fluid flow Fluctuating sea-level and its impact on the distribution of groundwater salinity in coastal areas Brines in continental aquifers Mountain building and erosion Impact of glaciations on regional hydrogeology Coupling and relative importance of processes driving fluid flow 4. Chemical hydrogeology Properties of water Chemical composition of groundwater Hydrochemical evolution of groundwater Groundwater sampling and graphical presentation of hydrochemical data Concept of chemical equilibrium Carbonate chemistry of groundwater Adsorption and ion exchange Redox chemistry Groundwater in crystalline rocks 5. Environmental isotope hydrogeology Stable isotope chemistry and nomenclature Stable isotopes of water Age dating of groundwater Law of radioactive decay C14 dating Cl36 dating Tritium dating H3/He3 dating Noble gases. 6. Groundwater and catchment processes Water balance equation Precipitation and evapotranspiration Soil water and infiltration Recharge estimation Borehole hydrograph Soil moisture budget Chloride budget Temperature profile Stream gauging techniques Velocity area methods Surface floats Current metering Acoustic Doppler current profiler Dilution gauging Ultrasonic, electromagnetic and integrating float methods Slope-area method Weirs and flumes Hydrograph analysis Quickflow and baseflow separation Unit hydrograph theory Surface water, groundwater interaction Temperature-based methods of detection Simulating river flow depletion Analytical solutions Catchment resource modeling 7. Groundwater investigation techniques Measurement and interpretation of groundwater level data Water level measurement Well and borehole design and construction methods Groundwater level contour maps Field estimation of aquifer properties Piezometer tests Pumping tests Thiem equilibrium method Theis non-equilibrium method Cooper-Jacob straight-line method Recovery test method Principle of superposition of drawdown Leaky, unconfined and bounded aquifer systems Tracer tests Geophysical methods Remote sensing methods Groundwater modeling 8. Groundwater quality and contaminant hydrogeology Water quality standards Water hardness Irrigation water quality Transport of contaminants in groundwater Reactive dissolved contaminants Non-aqueous phase liquids Hydrophobic sorption Density and heterogeneity Urban and industrial contaminants Municipal landfill, domestic and cemetery wastes Agricultural contaminants Saline water intrusion in coastal aquifers 9. Groundwater pollution remediation and protection Pump-and-treat Permeable reactive barriers Monitored natural attenuation Groundwater pollution protection strategies in industrialized countries Groundwater vulnerability mapping Source protection zones Risk assessment methods Spatial planning and groundwater protection Groundwater protection strategies in developing countries 10. Groundwater resources and environmental management Groundwater resources schemes Artificial storage and recovery schemes Riverbank filtration schemes Horizontal well schemes Wetland hydrogeology Climate change and groundwater resources Appendices : Conversion factors The geological timescale Symbols, atomic numbers and atomic weights Composition of seawater and rainwater Drinking water quality standards and Lists I and II substances N2 - Hydrogeology: Principles and Practice provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of hydrogeology to enable the reader to appreciate the significance of groundwater in meeting current and future water resource challenges. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect advances in the field since 2004 UR - Uniform resource identifier ER -