Groundwater Science, Second Edition — winner of a 2014 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Association — covers groundwater's role in the hydrologic cycle and in water supply, contamination, and construction issues. It is a valuable resource for students and instructors in the geosciences (with focuses in hydrology, hydrogeology, and environmental science), and as a reference work for professional researchers. This interdisciplinary text weaves important methods and applications from the disciplines of physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, biology, and environmental science, introducing you to the mathematical modeling and contaminant flow of groundwater.
New to the Second Edition:
- New chapter on subsurface heat flow and geothermal systems
- Expanded content on well construction and design, surface water hydrology, groundwater/ surface water interaction, slug tests, pumping tests, and mounding analysis.
- Updated discussions of groundwater modeling, calibration, parameter estimation, and uncertainty
- Free software tools for slug test analysis, pumping test analysis, and aquifer modeling
- Lists of key terms and chapter contents at the start of each chapter
- Expanded end-of-chapter problems, including more conceptual questions
Key Features
- Winner of a 2014 Texty Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association
- Features two-color figures
- Includes homework problems at the end of each chapter and worked examples throughout
- Provides a companion website with videos of field exploration and contaminant migration experiments, PDF files of USGS reports, and data files for homework problems
- Offers PowerPoint slides and solution manual for adopting faculty
Dedication
Preface
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
1. Groundwater: The Big Picture
Key Terms
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Global Water Reservoirs and Fluxes
1.3 Terminology for Subsurface Waters
1.4 Fluxes Affecting Groundwater
1.5 Hydrologic Balance
1.6 Water and Groundwater Use
1.7 What Groundwater Scientists Do
1.8 Problems
2. Physical Properties
Key Terms
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Properties of Water
2.3 Properties of Air
2.4 Properties of Porous Media
2.5 Energy and Hydraulic Head
2.6 Measuring Hydraulic Head with Wells and Piezometers
2.7 Problems
3. Principles of Flow
Key Terms
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Darcy’s Law and Hydraulic Conductivity
3.3 Intrinsic Permeability and Conductivity of Other Fluids
3.4 Limits on the Application of Darcy’s Law
3.5 Heterogeneity and Anisotropy of Hydraulic Conductivity
3.6 Estimating Average Hydraulic Conductivities
3.7 Transmissivity
3.8 Measuring Hydraulic Conductivity
3.9 Flow in Fractured Rock
3.10 Unsaturated Flow
3.11 Flow of Groundwater with Variable Density
3.12 Problems
4. Field Exploration and Wells
Key Terms
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Exploring the Subsurface
4.3 Wells
4.4 Problems
5. Hydrology and Geology
Key Terms
5.1 General Patterns of Groundwater Flow
5.2 Surface Water Hydrology and Groundwater/Surface Water Interaction
5.3 Groundwater in Unconsolidated Deposits
5.4 Groundwater in Sedimentary Rocks
5.5 Groundwater in Igneous and Metamorphic Rocks
5.6 Frozen Ground and Permafrost
5.7 Problems
6. Deformation, Storage, and General Flow Equations
Key Terms
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Effective Stress
6.3 Atmospheric Pressure Fluctuations
6.4 Excavation Instability and Liquefaction
6.5 Slope Instability
6.6 Earthquakes and Groundwater Pressures
6.7 Matrix Compression
6.8 Changes in Subsurface Water Storage
6.9 General Flow Equations
6.10 Overview of Mathematical Modeling
6.11 Problems
7. Modeling Steady Flow with Basic Methods
Key Terms
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Aquifers with Uniform Transmissivity
7.3 Vertical Plane Flow
7.4 Flow Net Graphical Solutions
7.5 Unconfined Aquifers with a Horizontal Base
7.6 Problems
8. Modeling Transient Well Hydraulics and Mounding
Key Terms
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Slug Tests
8.3 Transient Response of Aquifers to Pumping
8.4 Pumping Test Analysis
8.5 Additional Considerations for Pumping Tests
8.6 Transient Mounding under a Rectangular Recharge Area
8.7 Problems
9. Computer-Assisted Flow Modeling
Key Terms
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Finite Difference Method
9.3 Finite Element Method
9.4 Analytic Element Method
9.5 Strengths and Limitations of These Methods
9.6 Modeling Process
9.7 Problems
10. Groundwater Chemistry
Key Terms
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Molecular Properties of Water
10.3 Solute Concentration Units
10.4 Natural Solutes
10.5 Chemical Reactions
10.6 Mineral Dissolution and Precipitation
10.7 Gas–Water Partitioning
10.8 Aqueous-Phase Reactions
10.9 Sorption
10.10 Isotopes
10.11 Examples of Natural Groundwater Chemistry Processes
10.12 Problems
11. Groundwater Contamination
Key Terms
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Contamination Sources
11.3 Organic Contaminants
11.4 Nonaqueous-Phase Liquids
11.5 Solute Transport Processes
11.6 Case Studies of Solute Transport
11.7 Modeling Solute Transport
11.8 Investigating Contamination
11.9 Remediating Contamination
11.10 Problems
12. Subsurface Heat Flow and Geothermal Energy
Key Terms
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Energy and Heat Flow Processes
12.3 Crustal Temperatures and Heat Flow
12.4 Shallow Temperatures
12.5 Hydrothermal Systems and Geysers
12.6 Geothermal Energy
12.7 Problems
Appendix A: Units and Conversions
A.1 Length [L]
A.2 Area [L2]
A.3 Volume [L3]
A.4 Time [T]
A.5 Mass [M] and Weight [ML/T2] at Earth’s Surface
A.6 Force [ML/T2]
A.7 Pressure or Stress [M/LT2]
A.8 Energy [ML2/T2]
A.9 Power [ML2/T3]
A.10 Angle
A.11 Temperature
A.12 Velocity and Hydraulic Conductivity [L/T]
A.13 Transmissivity [L2/T]
A.14 Discharge (Flow Rate) [L3/T]
A.15 Unit Prefixes
A.16 Performing Unit Conversions
Appendix B: Mathematics Primer
B.1 Algebra and Geometry
B.2 Functions of One Variable
B.3 Formulas for Common Derivatives
B.4 Functions of Two or More Variables
Appendix C: Book Website
Answers to Selected Problems
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
References
Index
- Mays, Ground and Surface Water Hydrology, Wiley, 2011, 9780470169872, $176.95
- Fetter, Applied Hydrogeology, 4e, Prentice-Hall, 2001, 9780130882394, $175.33
- Schwartz and Zhang, Fundamentals of Ground Water, Wiley, 2003, 9780471137856, $187.95
Graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in groundwater science, hydrogeology and (as secondary academic market) civil engineering. Reference for geoscientists and researchers in academe and industry
Great book for a basic hydrogeology course.