Patterns of groundwater quality in sandy aquifers under environmental pressure

In exploring groundwater quality patterns in sandy phreatic aquifers this thesis follows three fundamental tracks, which are of a methodological, of a conceptual, and of a process based kind. First, in chapter 1 the three principle factors that together determine the groundwater quality distribution, which are flow, input, and geochemical processes, are introduced. Also the two perspectives of relating groundwater flow to groundwater quality are presented. The first perspective is in terms of future and past pathways of point source pollution, the second is of a spatiotemporal type, where the... Mehr ...