Groundwater in Fractured Rocks: IAH Selected Paper Series, volume 9

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 12
About the editors......Page 16
Hydrogeology of fractured rocks from particular fractures to regional approaches: State-of-the-art and future challenges......Page 18
Hydrogeological environment of fractured rocks......Page 48
CHAPTER 1 Hydrogeology of granite rocks in Sardinia......Page 50
CHAPTER 2 Groundwater exploitation of fractured rocks in South America......Page 62
CHAPTER 3 Groundwater and tectonics – semiarid Northeast of Brazil......Page 74
CHAPTER 4 Regional study of hard rock aquifers in Alentejo, South Portugal: methodology and results......Page 90
CHAPTER 5 Groundwater in volcanic hard rocks......Page 112
CHAPTER 6 Regional transmissivity distribution and groundwater potential in hard rock of Ghana......Page 126
CHAPTER 7 Hydrogeology of hard rocks in some eastern and western African countries......Page 138
CHAPTER 8 The fractured rocks in Hellas......Page 150
CHAPTER 9 Determining a representative hydraulic conductivity of the Carnmenellis granite of Cornwall, UK, based on a range of sources of information......Page 168
CHAPTER 10 Estimating the change of fracture volume with depth at the Koralm Massif, Austria......Page 180
Conceptual models, groundwater flow and resources in fractured rocks......Page 194
CHAPTER 11 Fractured Old Red Sandstone aquifers of the Cork Harbour region: Groundwater barriers between adjacent karstic systems......Page 196
CHAPTER 12 Non-Darcy two-phase flow in fractured rocks......Page 206
CHAPTER 13 GIS based assessment of groundwater recharge in the fractured rocks of Namaqualand, South Africa......Page 220
CHAPTER 14 The use of environmental isotopes to establish a hydrogeological conceptual model in a region with scarce data: the Table Mountain Group of South Africa as a case study......Page 236
CHAPTER 15 Hard rock aquifers characterization prior to modelling at catchment scale: an application to India......Page 244
CHAPTER 16 Estimating groundwater recharge in fractured bedrock aquifers in Ireland......Page 260
Groundwater quality in fractured rocks......Page 276
CHAPTER 17 Interpreting the evolution and stability of groundwaters in fractured rocks......Page 278
CHAPTER 18 Universal controls on the evolution of groundwater chemistry in shallow crystalline rock aquifers: the evidence from empirical and theoretical studies......Page 292
CHAPTER 19 Factors influencing the microbiological quality of groundwater in Norwegian bedrock wells......Page 308
CHAPTER 20 Evaluating mineral water quality trends of Pedras Salgadas (Portugal)......Page 322
CHAPTER 21 Questions and answers about the evolution of CO2-rich thermomineral waters from Hercynian granitic rocks (N-Portugal): a review......Page 330
CHAPTER 22 Origin of salinity in a fractured bedrock aquifer in the Central West Region of NSW, Australia......Page 346
CHAPTER 23 Isotope studies of a groundwater-flow system in granite, Middle Hungary......Page 360
CHAPTER 24 Structure conditional thermal springs in Central Brazil......Page 372
Investigation and interpretation methods in fractured environment......Page 390
CHAPTER 25 Characterization of fractured porous media: Aquifer Analogue Approach......Page 392
CHAPTER 26 Application of the oriented core drilling/sampling method to an environmental site investigation......Page 410
CHAPTER 27 Probabilistic delineation of groundwater protection zones in fractured-rock aquifers......Page 422
CHAPTER 28 Interconnected flow measurement between boreholes using a borehole flowmeter......Page 440
CHAPTER 29 Characterizing flow in natural fracture networks: comparison of the discrete and continuous descriptions......Page 454
CHAPTER 30 New analysis of pump tests in fractured aquifers......Page 468
CHAPTER 31 Estimating groundwater flow rates in fractured metasediments: Clare Valley, South Australia......Page 480
CHAPTER 32 Fracture networks in Jurassic carbonate rock of the Algarve Basin (South Portugal): Implications for aquifer behaviour related to the recent stress field......Page 496
Anthropogenic impacts on fractured environment......Page 510
CHAPTER 33 Using specific capacity to assign vulnerability to diffuse pollution in fractured aquifers in Scotland......Page 512
CHAPTER 34 Environmental impacts of tunnels in fractured crystalline rocks of the Central Alps......Page 524
CHAPTER 35 Groundwater modelling approaches as planning tools for WISMUT’s remediation activities at the Ronneburg uranium mining site......Page 544
CHAPTER 36 Active groundwater monitoring and remediation during tunneling through fractured bedrock under urban areas......Page 558
Numerical modelling of fractured environment......Page 568
CHAPTER 37 A double continuum approach for determining contaminant transport in fractured porous media......Page 570
CHAPTER 38 Coupled hydro-mechanical modelling of flow in fractured rock......Page 584
CHAPTER 39 Hydrogeologic modelling with regard to site selection for an underground repository in a granite formation in Krasnojarsk, Russia......Page 592
CHAPTER 40 Development and qualification of a smeared fracture modelling approach for transfers in fractured media......Page 604
CHAPTER 41 Sensitivity of fracture skin properties on solute transport and back diffusion in fractured media......Page 622
CHAPTER 42 Averaging hydraulic conductivity in heterogeneous fractures and layered aquifers......Page 634
CHAPTER 43 Time-resolved 3D characterisation of flow and dissolution patterns in a single rough-walled fracture......Page 646
Subject and geographic index......Page 660
Author index......Page 664
SERIES IAH-Selected Papers......Page 666