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

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1. Introduction to Ground Water.

2. Hydrologic Processes at the Earth's Surface.

3. Basic Principles of Ground-Water Flow.

4. Geology and Ground Water.

5. Theory of Ground-Water Flow.

6. Theory of Ground-Water Flow in Unsaturated Zones and Fractured Media.

7. Basic Geologic and Hydrogeologic Investigations.

8. Regional Ground-Water Flow.

9. Response of Confined Aquifers to Pumping.

10. Leaky Confined Aquifers and Partially-Penetrating Wells.

11. Response of An Unconfined Aquifer to Pumping.

12. Slug, Step and Intermittent Tests.

13. Superposition and Bounded Aquifers.

14. Solving Well-Hydraulics Problems with a PC.

15. Management of Ground-Water Resources.

16. Dissolved Mass in Ground Water.

17. Kinetic and Equilibrium Reactions.

18. Key Reactions Influencing Ground-Water Chemistry.

19. Basics of Mass Transport, Advection, and Dispersion.

20. Isotopes and Age Dating.

21. Geochemistry of Natural Water Systems.

22. Introduction to Contaminant Hydrogeology.

23. Investigating Contamination Problems in the Field.

24. Modeling Contaminant Transport.

Appendix A: Table of Atomic Weights.

References .

Index.

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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)
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