Semester: | 6th |
Course Type: | Mandatory |
Course Code: | Y6202 |
eClass URL | ➽ |
Hours per Week | |
- Lecturing: | 2 |
- Practical/Lab Exersices: | 4 |
Total Hours of Fieldwork Exersice: | 12 |
ERASMUS: | ✔ |
ECTS: | 6 |
Teaching Units: | 6 |
Prerequisites: | - |
Expected Prior Knowlegde: | Υ5204 |
It is the basic course that deals with the appearance, flow, storage, exploitation, management and protection of groundwater as well as its connection with surface water.
Purposes and objects of hydrogeology. Hydrological cycle (Water Cycle). Analysis of the parameters of the Water Cycle (Atmospheric precipitation. Runoff, Evaporation, Evapotranspiration, Infiltration); Hydrogeological behavior of geological formations. Types of aquifers. Hydraulic head - hydraulic conductivity. Darcy's law. Storage and Trasmitivity of aquifers. Piezometric maps; Pumping works – Pumping wells; Flow of groundwater in the pumping wells. Pumping Tests: their interpretations and methodologies for calculating hydraulic parameters; Hydrogeological balance; Springs. Thermometallic springs and hydrothermal fields. Karst springs and coefficient of sterilization; Surface and underground hydrogeological research; Basic concepts of hydrochemistry. Quality of groundwater. Pollution of groundwater. Penetration of seawater. Artificial enrichment of aquifers; Principles of rational management of groundwater; Basic concepts of karst hydrogeology, Isotopic hydrology and traces; Computers and their use in Hydrogeology.