Syllabus
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Course Code: GT-704 Course Name: Hydrogeology |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Water on earth: types of water, meteoric, juvenile, magmatic and sea water. Hydrological cycle and its components, water balance. Water-bearing properties of rocks: porosity, permeability, specific yield and specific retention. Vertical distribution of water, zone of aeration and zone of saturation, classification of rocks according to their water-bearing properties. Aquifers: classification of aquifers, concepts of drainage basins and groundwater basins. Aquifer parameters: transmissivity and storage coefficient, water table and piezometric surface |
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| 2 | Theory of groundwater flow: Darcy’s law and its applications: determination of permeability in laboratory and in field, constant head permeameter, falling head permeameter, tracer test, problem exercise on darcy’s law, permeability test and transmissivity. | |
| 3 | Basic geologic and hydrogeologic Investigations: surface methods :remote sensing, electrical resistivity method and seismic refraction method and subsurface methods: geologic log, drilling time log, radiation log, resistivity logging, temperature logging, caliper logging. | |
| 4 | Groundwater Quality: Physical and chemical properties of water, quality criteria for different uses. graphical presentation of groundwater quality data:vertical bar graph method, vector diagram, pattern diagram, circular diagram, trilinear diagram, water quality and pollution sources, isotopes and their uses, water level fluctuations. |
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