Research Catalog

Title

Groundwater science / Charles R. Fitts.

Author

Fitts, Charles R. (Charles Richard), 1953-

Publication

Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, c2002.

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Details

Description

xiv, 450 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

This title is a presentation of groundwater hydrology that integrates chemistry, physics, geology and calculus. With the input of students and other hydrology instructors, the author has developed a text reference that gives an explanation of concepts andquantitative analyses.

Subject

• Groundwater
• Groundwater ecology
• Ground water

Note

• "An associated Website provides data files for additional exercises requiring spreadsheets and/or simple flow modeling software. The site also features links to various ground water sites offering public-domain and commercial groundwater computer software"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-434) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Groundwater: the Big Picture -- Global Water Reservoirs and Fluxes -- Terminology for Subsurface Waters -- Fluxes Affecting Groundwater -- Infiltration and Recharge -- Evapotranspiration -- Groundwater Discharge to Surface Water Bodies -- Pumping -- Hydrologic Balance -- Water and Groundwater Use -- What Groundwater Scientists Do -- Physical Properties -- Properties of Water -- Density and Compressibility -- Viscosity -- Surface Tension and Capillarity -- Properties of Air -- Properties of Porous Media -- Porosity -- Grain Size -- Volumetric Water Content and Bulk Density -- Energy and Hydraulic Head -- Hydrostatics -- Measuring Hydraulic Head with Wells and Piezometers -- Principles of Flow -- Darcy's Law and Hydraulic Conductivity -- Specific Discharge and Average Linear Velocity -- Darcy's Law in Three Dimensions -- Intrinsic Permeability and Conductivity of Other Fluids -- Limits on the Application of Darcy's Law -- The Continuum Assumption -- Laminar and Turbulent Flow -- Heterogeneity and Anisotropy of Hydraulic Conductivity -- Estimating Average Hydraulic Conductivities -- Transmissivity -- Measuring Hydraulic Conductivity -- Correlations of Grain Size to Hydraulic Conductivity -- Laboratory Hydraulic Conductivity Tests -- Slug Tests -- Pumping Tests -- Tracer Tests -- Modeling Natural Systems -- Flow in Fractured Rock -- Unsaturated Flow -- Water Content and Pressure -- Measuring Pressures below Atmospheric -- Water Content, Hydraulic Conductivity, and Darcy's Law -- Flow of Groundwater with Variable Density.

ISBN

0122578554

LCCN

^^2001098016

OCLC

• 50193219
• SCSB-9959655

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library