13 Appendix 3Table A3.1 The geological timescale.
14 Appendix 4Table A4.1 Table of symbols, atomic numbers and atomic weights of the elements....
15 Appendix 5Table A5.1 Table of average abundance of elements in seawater (Goldberg 1963 ...Table A5.2 Chemical composition of rainwater samples from land, marine, islan...Table A5.3 Volume weighted mean concentrations of trace elements in rainwater...
16 Appendix 6Table A6.1 Values of W(u) for various values of u.
17 Appendix 7Table A7.1 Values of q/Q and v/Qt corresponding to selected values of t/F.
18 Appendix 8Table A8.1 Values of error function, erf (β), and complementary error funct...
19 Appendix 9Table A9.1 Drinking water quality guidelines and standards. Table A9.2 List I and II substances as defined by EC Groundwater Directive (80/6...
20 Appendix 10Table A10.1 Kuwait Dammam limestone aquifer hydrochemical data.Table A10.2 Hydrochemical data for mixing of freshwater and seawater.Table A10.3 Hydrochemical data for Fife and Kinross. (Robins 1986). (Source: ...Table A10.4 Stable isotope and hydrochemical data for Llandrindod Wells (Merr...Table A10.5 Stable isotope and radioisotope data for a limestone aquifer.Table A10.6 Current metering data.Table A10.7 Dilution gauging data.Table A10.8 Results from a constant rate injection dilution‐gauging test to e...Table A10.9 Two‐component mixing model data.Table A10.10 Clay soil volumetric moisture content and soil water potential m...Table A10.11 Rainfall (P) and potential evapotranspiration (PE) data.Table A10.12 Constant discharge pumping test data.Table A10.13 Pumping test data for Hullavington river support borehole, Wilts...Table A10.14 Layered sand and gravel aquifer characteristics.Table AS10.1 Head values measured in three piezometers.Table AS10.2 Reynolds number in the vicinity of a pumping well.Table AS10.3 Head values measured in three piezometer nests.Table AS10.4 Hydrochemical data for groundwater samples from the Fife and Kin...Table AS10.5 Calculation of stream discharge using the velocity‐area method.Table AS10.6 Data for the calculation of stream discharge using the tracer sl...Table AS10.7 Calculation of evaporation and drainage losses from a clay soil ...Table AS10.8 Calculation of hydrological excess water (HXS) representing dire...Table AS10.9 Calculation of relative concentration breakthrough values of TCE...
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Fig. 1.1 The achievement of sustainable groundwater development through the...Fig. 1.2 Lady's Well in Coquetdale, northern England (National Grid Referen...Fig. 1.3 Longitudinal section of a qanat (Beaumont 1968 and Biswas 1972)....Fig. 1.4 Irrigation canal supplied with water by a qanat or falaj in Oman....Fig. 1.5 Map of the general geology in the vicinity of Rome showing the loc...Fig. 1.6 Baroque‐style depiction of the interlaced systems of air, fire and ...Fig. 1.7 Schematic diagram of the control of seasonal melting and freezing ...Fig. 1.8 The hydrological cycle. The global water cycle has three major pat...Fig. 1.9 The distribution of water at or near the Earth's surface. Only a v...Fig. 1.10 Conceptual diagram showing hypothetical age distributions in the ...Fig. 1.11 1960–2000 trends in total global water demand (right axis, indexe...Fig. 1.12 Trends in water abstractions (fresh and saline) by water use cate...Fig. 1.13 Location map of the North China Plain showing the distribution of...Fig. 1.14 Cross‐section of the North China Plain showing the general ...Fig. 1.15 Collection of water for domestic use from a hand‐pumped tube well...Fig. 1.16 The location of the IGB alluvial aquifer system (MacDonald et al. ...Fig. 1.17 Groundwater level variations in metres below ground level (m bgl) ...
2 Chapter 2Fig. 2.1 Types of porosity with relation to rock texture: (a) well‐sorted se...Fig. 2.2 Relation between median grain size and water storage properties of ...Fig. 2.3 Laboratory determined values of hydraulic conductivity as a functio...Fig. 2.4 Examples of isotropy, anisotropy and heterogeneity showing the infl...Fig. 2.5 Four possible combinations of heterogeneity and anisotropy describi...Fig. 2.6 Permeameter apparatus for determining the hydraulic conductivity of...Fig. 2.7 Macroscopic (Darcian) approach to the analysis of groundwater flow ...Fig. 2.8 Alluvial aquifer bounded by impermeable bedrock.Fig. 2.9 Municipal waste disposal site contaminating a sand and gravel aquif...Fig. 2.10 Conceptual models to represent a fractured rock system. The fractu...Fig. 2.11 Values of Reynolds number, Re, at various velocities and conduit d...Fig. 2.12 The disappearance of the upper River Fergus at An Clab, south‐east...Fig. 2.13 Block diagram showing the occurrence of groundwater in karst aquif...Fig. 2.14 Conceptual classification of karst aquifers from a consideration o...Fig. 2.15 Six types of sinkholes and their typical cross‐sections. (a) Solut...Fig. 2.16 Double‐decker bus with its front wheels in the air that sank into ...Fig. 2.17 Idealised diagram of the progressive development of a natural solu...Fig. 2.18 Work done in moving a unit mass of fluid from the standard state t...Fig. 2.19 Relation between hydraulic head, h, pressure head, ψ, and ele...Fig. 2.20 Condition of pressure head, ψ, for the unsaturated and satura...Fig.