Access to a granitic rock mass in an iron ore mine in Sweden provided a unique opportunity for underground experiments related to the geologic disposal of radioactive waste. These field tests demonstrated the importance of hydrogeology and the difficulties in predicting the thermomechanical behavior of fractured granitic rocks. To characterize a site fully, measurements made from the surface mu...

Engineering geology has an important role to play in sustainable development. This is due the unique perspective that engineering geologists have of interfaces between: science and engineering; natural built environments; past, present future. paper examines delivering United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) demonstrates there a strong link between knowledge, skills activities deliv...

Although it is self-evident that today’s groundwater issues have a history frames both problems and responses, these histories received scant attention in the socio-hydrogeological literature to date. This paper aims enrich field of socio-hydrogeology with novel, historical perspective on management whilst simultaneously demonstrating value water engaging groundwater. achieved by applying hydro...

Exploratory data analysis and clustering of multivariate spatial hydrogeological data by means of GEO3DSOM, a variant of Kohonen’s Self-Organizing Map L. Peeters, F. Bação, V. Lobo, and A. Dassargues Applied Geology and Mineralogy, KULeuven, Leuven, Belgium Instituto Superior de Estat́istica e Gestão de Informação, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Campus de Campolide, Lisboa, Portugal Portuguese Nav...

Weathering is a complex process comprising physical disaggregation, chemical and biological decomposition of rocks and minerals transforming complex structure minerals in simpler ones. Hydrolysis of silicates is perhaps the most important process but associated certainly to biological weathering. It is discussed the role ofwaters: activities/concentrations of chemical species, pH, Eh, importanc...

When neglecting capillarity, two-phase incompressible flow in porous media is modelled as a scalar nonlinear hyperbolic conservation law. A change in the rock type results in a change of the flux function. Discretizing in one-dimensional with a finite volume method, we investigate two numerical fluxes, an extension of the Godunov flux and the upstream mobility flux, the latter being widely used...

The three-point problem is well-known in structural geology and hydrogeology. The solution of this problem is used to find the strike and dip of a planar geologic surface using three measurements of point positions located on the surface. I revisit the three-point problem using a vector analysis approach and expand to the n-point problem in which more than three measurements that include measur...

Darcy’s Law is the fundamental equation describing the flow of fluid through porous media including groundwater. It forms the quantitative basis of many science and engineering disciplines including hydrology, hydrogeology, soil science, civil engineering, petroleum engineering and chemical engineering. The year 2006 marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of Henry Darcy’s most famous t...