GEOL 4010 - Groundwater Hydrology

3 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
Concentrated study of 1) principles of fluid mechanics that apply to groundwater flow, 2) water-storage properties of geologic media, 3) field and analytical methodologies for quantifying hydraulic properties of geologic media, 4) applications of Darcy’s Law and Conservation of Mass principles for modeling water flow in aquifers and variably-wetted soils during groundwater recharge.