Groundwater Flow and Contaminant Transport in Carbonate Aquifers

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-90-5410-498-8
Verlag: A A Balkema Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Carbonate aquifers are an important source of water throughout the world. They are complicated systems and not always easy to interpret. Caves and channels form in the rock, leading to complex flow pathways and unpredictable contaminant behaviour. This volume covers the range of techniques used to analyse groundwater flow and contaminant transport in carbonate aquifers. The book opens with a review of thoughts and methods, and continues by discussing the use of tracers, hydrograph and hydrochemograph evaluation, estimation of aquifer properties from outcrop studies, numerical simulation, analogue simulation, and 3-D visualization of conduits. Other papers address the critical evaluation of matrix, fracture and conduit components of flow and storage. An understanding of these approaches is important to engineers or hydrogeologists working in carbonate aquifers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sasowsky, Ira D.

Wicks, Carol M.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Limnologie (Süßwasser)
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Wasserversorgung, Wasseraufbereitung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Carbonate aquifers: A review of thoughts and methods; Quantitative tracer test of the Beech Creek aquifer at the Ammunition Burning Grounds, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane, Indiana; Application of unit hydrograph technique to the discharge record at Big Spring, Carter County, Missouri; The use of regression analysis to predict nitrate-nitrogen concentrations in springs of northwest Arkansas; Surface and ground water mixing, flow paths, and temporal variations in chemical compositions of karst springs. Estimating porosity and permeability in a karstic aquifer using core plugs, well tests, and outcrop measurements; Matrix, fracture and channel components of storage and flow in a Paleozoic limestone aquifer; Flow in the San Antonio segment of the Edwards Aquifer: Matrix, fractures, or conduits? A numerical approach to simulating mixed flow in karst aquifers; Studies of confluent flow in mature karst aquifers using analog models and numerical mixing cell models; A method for producing 3-d geometric and parameter models of saturated cave systems with a discussion of applications.

Über Autor(innen)

Ira D. Sasowsky, Department of Geology, University of Akron, Ohio, USA. Carol M. Wicks, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA.