Applied Hydrogeology of Fractured Rocks Second Edition
Hydrogeology is a topical and growing subject as the earth's water resources become scarcer and more vulnerable. More than half of the surface area of continents is covered with hard rocks of low permiability. This book deals comprehensively with the fund
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Applied Hydrogeology of Fractured Rocks Second Edition
B.B.S. Singhal Formerly Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India R.P. Gupta Professor of Earth Resources Technology, Department of Earth Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee, India
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Dr. B.B.S. Singhal Formerly Professor Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Department of Earth Sciences Roorkee, India [email protected]
Dr. R.P. Gupta Professor Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee Department of Earth Sciences Roorkee, India [email protected]
This is a revised and updated edition of Applied Hydrogeology of Fractured Rocks, Kluwer Academic Publishers (now Springer), 1999.
ISBN 978-90-481-8798-0 e-ISBN 978-90-481-8799-7 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-8799-7 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010932876 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Cover illustration: Fig. 2.1 in this book and a schematic of triple porosity model in carbonate rocks: groundwater occurs in the inter-pore spaces, along fractures and joints and in larger subsurface conduits (by Ravi Gupta and Mukesh Kumar Singh). Cover design: deblik, Berlin Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Verily, all this is water. All the created beings are water. The vital breaths in the body are water. Quadrupeds are water. Edible crops are water. Ambrosia is water. The luminaries are water. Vedic formulae are water. Truth is water. All deities are water. – from Mahanarayan Upanishad Those who take managerial action to conserve and use water from glaciers, mountains, rivers, wells and also rainwater prosper all the time. – from Atharva Veda Note: Upanishads & Vedas are ancient Indian scripture originally in Sanskrit.
Preface
Preface to the Second Edition The main objective in producing the second edition of “Applied Hydrogeology of Fractured Rocks” is to incorporate in the book recent advances in this field. In this new edition, topics such as tracer and isotope techniques, groundwater contamination and groundwater modeling have been enlarged into full-length chapters. Besides, additional information has been incorporated in nearly all the chapters particularly for updating latest techniques and information in geophysical exploration, satellite remote sensing sensors, hydrogeology of crystalline and carbonate rocks, well hydraulics, and groundwater conservation and management, with numerous examples. The critical suggestions from colleagues and esteemed reviewers of the first edition have been taken into c
