Hydrogeology E-Book

Kevin M. Hiscock

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 1617

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

HYDROGEOLOGY

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 environmental and sustainable water resource challenges. This new edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect advances in the field since 2014 and includes over 350 new references.

The book presents a systematic approach to understanding groundwater starting with new insights into the distribution of groundwater in the Earth’s upper continental crust and the role of groundwater as an agent of global material and elemental fluxes. Following chapters explain the fundamental physical and chemical principles of hydrogeology, and later chapters feature groundwater field investigation techniques in the context of catchment processes, as well as chapters on groundwater quality and contaminant hydrogeology, including a section on emerging contamination from microplastic pollution.

Unique features of the book are chapters on the application of environmental isotopes and noble gases in the interpretation of aquifer evolution, and a discussion of regional characteristics such as topography, compaction and variable fluid density on geological processes affecting past, present and future groundwater flow regimes. The last chapter discusses future challenges for groundwater governance and management for the long-term sustainability of groundwater resources, including the role of managed aquifer recharge, and examines the linkages between groundwater and climate change, including impacts on cold-region hydrogeology. Given the drive to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the interaction of groundwater in the exploitation of energy resources, including renewable resources and shale gas, is reviewed.

Throughout the text, boxes and a set of colour plates drawn from the authors’ teaching and research experience are used to explain special topics and to illustrate international case studies ranging from transboundary aquifers and submarine groundwater discharge to the hydrogeochemical factors that have influenced the history of malting and brewing in Europe. The appendices provide conversion tables and useful reference material, and include review questions and exercises, with answers, to help develop the reader’s knowledge and problem-solving skills in hydrogeology.

This highly informative and accessible textbook is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students primarily in earth sciences, environmental sciences and physical geography with an interest in hydrogeology or groundwater topics. The book will also find use among practitioners in hydrogeology, soil science, civil engineering and landscape planning who are involved in environmental and resource protection issues requiring an understanding of groundwater.

Leseprobe

Fresh Water to Drink

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1867–1957

In a little while the well was almost full of water. A circle of blue sky lay not far down in the ground, and when Laura looked at it, a little girl’s head looked up at her. When she waved her hand, a hand on the water’s surface waved, too.

The water was clear and cold and good. Laura thought she had never tasted anything so good as those long, cold drinks of water. Pa hauled no more stale, warm water from the creek. He built a solid platform over the well, and a heavy cover for the hole that let the water‐bucket through. Laura must never touch that cover. But whenever she or Mary was thirsty, Ma lifted the cover and drew a dripping bucket of cold, fresh water from that well.

Little House on the Prairie, 1935

© HarperCollins Publishers Inc., New York.

Hydrogeology

Principles and Practice

Third Edition

Kevin M. Hiscock and Victor F. Bense

This third edition first published 2021© 2021 John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Edition HistoryBlackwell Science Ltd (1e, 2005); John Wiley & Sons Ltd (2e, 2014)

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

Names: Hiscock, K. M. (Kevin M.), author. | Bense, V. F. (Victor Franciscus), author. | John Wiley & Sons, publisher.Title: Hydrogeology : principles and practice / Kevin M. Hiscock and Victor F. Bense.Description: Third edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021003266 (print) | LCCN 2021003267 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119569534 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119569527 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119569510 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Hydrogeology. Classification: LCC GB1003.2 .H57 2021 (print) | LCC GB1003.2 (ebook) | DDC 551.49–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021003266LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021003267

Cover Design: WileyCover Image: © Kevin Hiscock

Cover caption: Sluice overflow at Cheddar Rising, Somerset, England. With a catchment area of 40 km2, the Cheddar resurgence is the largest of the Mendip Hills springs, with flow varying from 0.6–10 m3s−1. The main conduit is blocked by scree through which water emerges from many outlets in the bed of the artificial lake.

List of colour plates

Plate 1.1 Examples of now redundant village pumps once widespread in their use in Britain: (a) the wooden pump on Queen’s Square, Attleborough, Norfolk, enclosed 1897; and (b) the large Shalders pump used in the days before tarmac for dust‐laying on the old turnpike (Newmarket Road) at Cringleford, near Norwich, Norfolk.

Plate 1.2 Arcade of the aqueduct Aqua Claudia situated in the Parco degli Acquedotti, 8 km east of Rome. The aqueduct, which is built of cut stone masonry, also carries the brick‐faced concrete Anio Novus, added later on top of the Aqua Claudia.

Plate 1.3 The baroque mostra