Overview

Fundamentals of Ground Water provides the reader with the fundamental principles of the hydraulic cycle. Also complete with illustrations and real-life case studies, this text takes a comprehensive and realistic approach to the subject of hydrology. It also contains strong interactive computer-based programs for solving and simulating hydraulics groundwater processes.

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Author:   Franklin W. Schwartz (The Ohio State University) ,  Hubao Zhang (The Ohio State University)
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.30cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 25.50cm
Weight:   1.207kg
ISBN:  

9780471137856

ISBN 10:   0471137855
Pages:   592
Publication Date:   30 January 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Replaced By:   9781119820130
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to Ground Water 1 Chapter 2. Hydrologic Processes at the Earth's Surface 15 Chapter 3. Basic Principles of Ground-Water Flow 42 Chapter 4. Geology and Ground Water 69 Chapter 5. Theory of Ground-Water Flow 107 Chapter 6. Theory of Ground-Water Flow in Unsaturated Zones and Fractured Media 130 Chapter 7. Basic Geologic and Hydrogeologic Investigations 153 Chapter 8. Regional Ground-Water Flow 183 Chapter 9. Response of Confined Aquifers to Pumping 219 Chapter 10. Leaky Confined Aquifers and Partially-Penetrating Wells 240 Chapter 11. Response of An Unconfined Aquifer to Pumping 258 Chapter 12. Slug, Step and Intermittent Tests 273 Chapter 13. Superposition and Bounded Aquifers 292 Chapter 14. Solving Well-Hydraulics Problems with a PC 310 Chapter 15. Management of Ground-Water Resources 336 Chapter 16. Dissolved Mass in Ground Water 369 Chapter 17. Kinetic and Equilibrium Reactions 399 Chapter 18. Key Reactions Influencing Ground-Water Chemistry 411 Chapter 19. Basics of Mass Transport, Advection, and Dispersion 443 Chapter 20. Isotopes and Age Dating 473 Chapter 21. Geochemistry of Natural Water Systems 496 Chapter 22. Introduction to Contaminant Hydrogeology 519 Chapter 23. Modeling Contaminant Transport Appendix A: Table of Atomic Weights 557 References 558 Index 577

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...one of the most comprehensive texts on the subject...should be widely used as a teaching vehicle... (Environmental Geology, Vol 45(7), May 2004)

...one of the most comprehensive texts on the subject...should be widely used as a teaching vehicle... ( Environmental Geology, Vol 45(7), May 2004)

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Franklin W. Schwartz and Hubao Zhang are the authors of Fundamentals of Ground Water, published by Wiley.

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