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Key Features

Buy this BookThis volume introduces groundwater's role in the hydrologic cycle and in water supply, contamination, and construction issues. Subsequent chapters introduce physical principles: properties of subsurface materials, groundwater flow, groundwater geology, deformation, and flow modeling techniques. Later chapters address groundwater chemistry and contamination. This treatment of the subject is intentionally interdisciplinary, weaving important theories and methods from the disciplines of physics, chemistry, mathematics, geology, biology, and environmental science.

Groundwater Science is a well organized, clearly written resource for students and professionals seeking a comprehensive treatment of hydrogeology.

• Integrates up-to-date material on field methods and flow modeling methods: analytic elements, finite differences, and finite elements
• Covers recent contamination topics including non-aqueous-phase liquids (NAPLs), complex solute transport processes, and remediation
• Presents clear explanations, two-color figures, case studies, and worked examples throughout
• Has an accompanying Web site with sample data sets for problems, links for feedback, and links to groundwater sites and public domain software
• 68 page solution manual available to faculty that adopt the book. The manual, also written by C. Fitts, contains detailed solutions to all homework problems.

Sample Pages

We are pleased to offer the Table of Contents, the Preface, Chapter 1, and first three pages of Chapters 2 through 10 as additional resources on our website.

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