Objectives 1
Department of Earth Science |
Northeastern
Illinois University
PRINCIPLES OF
HYDROGEOLOGY
ESCI 337
Spring, 2009
Daily Objectives #13
(March 3, 2009)
Dr. Sanders
By the
end of today's class, you should be able to do the following:
v Review:
Explain what is
meant by hydrostratigraphy, and tell how it differs from lithostratigraphy.
What makes water flow?
w Review: Explain the term
hydraulic head, and tell how total hydraulic head relates to
elevation
head and pressure head.
w Review: Define the
water
table in terms of total hydraulic head, pressure head, and elevation head.
w
On a flow net, identify the following
kinds of boundaries to a flow system:
o
no-flow boundaries
(sometimes these are impermeable
boundaries)
o water
table boundary
o constant
head boundaries
o constant
flow boundaries (rarely used in modeling natural systems).
w Distinguish between these kinds of boundaries:
o hydrostratigraphic
o hydrodynamic
(Hint: Explain why sometimes a
"no-flow" boundary is an "impermeable" boundary--but other times, the term
"impermeable" doesn't really apply.)
w A flow
system has been established in the ground water model. Construct a
flow net of the
system by first measuring hydraulic heads in each of the piezometers, and then
contouring the points with equipotential lines.
A grid showing the
piezometer locations appears here (jpg file).
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Last updated March 4, 2009.