Hydrogeology. Kevin M. Hiscock
Victor F. Bense
This third edition first published 2021
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Names: Hiscock, K. M. (Kevin M.), author. | Bense, V. F. (Victor Franciscus), author. | John Wiley & Sons, publisher.
Title: Hydrogeology : principles and practice / Kevin M. Hiscock and Victor F. Bense.
Description: Third edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021003266 (print) | LCCN 2021003267 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119569534 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119569527 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119569510 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Hydrogeology.
Classification: LCC GB1003.2 .H57 2021 (print) | LCC GB1003.2 (ebook) | DDC 551.49–dc23
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Cover Image: © Kevin Hiscock
Cover caption: Sluice overflow at Cheddar Rising, Somerset, England. With a catchment area of 40 km2, the Cheddar resurgence is the largest of the Mendip Hills springs, with flow varying from 0.6–10 m3s−1. The main conduit is blocked by scree through which water emerges from many outlets in the bed of the artificial lake.
List of colour plates
Plate 1.1 Examples of now redundant village pumps once widespread in their use in Britain: (a) the wooden pump on Queen’s Square, Attleborough, Norfolk, enclosed 1897; and (b) the large Shalders pump used in the days before tarmac for dust‐laying on the old turnpike (Newmarket Road) at Cringleford, near Norwich, Norfolk.
Plate 1.2 Arcade of the aqueduct Aqua Claudia situated in the Parco degli Acquedotti, 8 km east of Rome. The aqueduct, which is built of cut stone masonry, also carries the brick‐faced concrete Anio Novus, added later on top of the Aqua Claudia.
Plate 1.3 The baroque mostra of the Trevi Fountain in Rome. Designed by Nicola Salvi in 1732, and fed by the Vergine aqueduct, it depicts Neptune’s chariots being led by Tritons with sea horses, one wild and one docile, representing the various moods of the sea.
Plate 1.4 Global map of epithermal neutron currents measured on the planet Mars obtained by the NASA Odyssey Neutron Spectrometer orbiter. Epithermal neutrons provide the most sensitive measure of hydrogen in surface soils. Inspection of the global epithermal map shows high hydrogen content (blue colour) in surface soils south of about 60° latitude and in a ring that almost surrounds the north polar cap. The maximum intensity in the northern ring coincides with a region of high albedo and low thermal inertia, which are both required for near‐surface water ice to be stable. Also seen are large regions near the equator that contain enhanced near‐surface hydrogen, which is most likely in the form of chemically and/or physically bound water and/or hydroxyl radicals since water ice is not stable near the equator. (Source: Reproduced from Los Alamos National Laboratory. © Copyright 2011 Los Alamos National Security, LLC. All rights reserved.)
Plate 1.5 Hose reel and rain gun irrigation system applied to a potato field in Norfolk, eastern England on 30 May 2020 and supplied by groundwater from the underlying Cretaceous Chalk aquifer.
Plate 1.6 NASA Landsat‐7 satellite image of the Ouargla Oasis, Algeria on 20 December, 2000. In this false‐colour image, red indicates vegetation (the brighter the red, the more dominant the vegetation). Pale pink and orange tones show the desert landscape of sand and rock outcrops. The satellite image shows date palms surrounding the urban area of Ouargla and Chott Aïn el Beïda in the south‐west, a saline depression that has traditionally collected irrigation runoff, as well as the proliferation of irrigated land to the north and east of Ouargla in the vicinity of Chott Oum el Raneb. The width of the image shown is approximately 40 km. (Source: Reproduced from http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD. NASA images created by Jesse Allen and Rob Simmon, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Michon Scott.)
Plate 1.7 Estimated depth in metres below ground level (m bgl) to groundwater in Africa (Bonsor and MacDonald 2011). (Source: Bonsor, H.C. and MacDonald, A.M. (2011). An initial estimate of depth to groundwater across Africa,