Approved by: Undergraduate Course and Curriculum Committee
Implementation Date: Spring 2016
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GEOL 4145. Fundamentals of Hydrogeology. (4) (W) Cross-listed with GEOL 5145. Prerequisites: GEOL 1200, and GEOL 1200L or ESCI 1101 and ESCI 1101L, MATH 1241, CHEM 1251, and CHEM 1251L; or permission of instructor. Fundamentals of physical and chemical groundwater hydrology. Principles of flow, and transport, and chemical reactions in groundwater aquifers and the vadose zone, including groundwater-surface water interactions. Topics include: storage compressibility, capillarity, Darcy’s Law, aquifer parameters, steady and transient flow equations, well hydraulics, geological controls on groundwater flow, and transport of non-reactive chemical species by advection, diffusion and dispersion in porous media, together with applied problems. Three hours of lecture, and three hours of lab per week, with occasional field trips. (Fall) (Spring)