Synopses & Reviews
This volume represents an effort to bring together communities of land-based hydrogeology and marine hydrogeology. The issues of submarine groundwater discharge and its opposite phenomenon of seawater invasion are discussed in this book from the geophysical, geochemical, biological, and engineering perspectives. This is where land hydrogeology and marine hydrogeology overlap. Submarine groundwater discharge is a rapidly developing research field. The SCOR and LOICZ of the IGBP have recently established a working group for this research. IASPO and IAHS under IUGG also recently formed a new joint committee "Seawater/Groundwater Interactions" to collaborate with oceanographers and hydrologists.
The other articles introduce frontier research topics in more typical land and marine environments, such as fluid flow in karst aquifers, the biological aspects of fluids in sedimentary basins and submarine sedimentary formations, respectively, and vigorous fluid flow in subsea formations and their significance in global tectonics. Geochemical characteristics of hydrothermal activities at a number of active continental margins are also reviewed, and multidisciplinary geophysical constraints of the permeability of young igneous oceanic crust are summarized. A variety of driving mechanisms for fluid flow is discussed in land and subsea formations; terrestrial hydraulic gradient, buoyancy driven free convection, tidally induced flow, flow induced by tectonic strain, flow due to sediment compaction.
Synopsis
Land and Marine Hydrogeology represents an effort to bring together the communities of land-based hydrogeology and marine hydrogeology. The issues of submarine groundwater discharge and its opposite phenomenon of seawater invasion are discussed in this book. This is where land hydrogeology and marine hydrogeology overlap. The ten articles collected in this volume deal with hydrogeology in a broad range of tectonic and geological settings, from mid-ocean ridges to continental margins, from coastal groundwater channels to karst aquifers. They provide examples of how geophysical, geochemical, biological, and engineering approaches are used in various types of hydrogeological observations and modeling. This book will be of value to experts in academia, consulting firms, and persons in water resources and environmental managing agencies who are interested in land and marine hydrogeology. It can also be used in courses such as Coastal Sciences, Hydrological Sciences, Ocean Sciences, Water Management in the Land and Ocean.