Castany: Traité pratique des eaux souterraines

TRAITE PRATIQUE D E S E A U X S O U T E R - R A I N E S

(Practical Treatise on Ground water) Dunod, Paris, 1967. Second edition.

2 4 x 16 c m , XXXIIIi-661 pages (411 figures, 83 tables).

pages figures tables refer- ences tation ences of surface hydrol-

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1 . Precipita- tion.

2. Evaporation- Transpiration.

the soil and subsoil

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b y c h a p t e r s .

Original research author by

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cerned Additional information on the contents.

France U.S.A.

9 Generalities: precipitation measurement: pre sen- tation of data, analysis of storms; calculation of m e a n precipitation over a basin.

Tropical Generalities; evaporation; transpiration.

areas, Mediter

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ranean, France U.S.A., Europe

Europe

Evapotranspiration factors; measurements of ac

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tua1 evapotranspiration; formulae for calculating p'otential and actual evapotranspiration.

Generalities ; stream regimes ; Stream dis charge;

presentation of measurement data; components of flow; flow cycle; hydrograph analysis; flow and rainfall gauging.

Generalities: characteristics of losses; formulae for calculation of losses.

Generalities; methods and interpretation of infiltration measurement; infiltration factors.

Types of balances; calculation of a balance;

model plan for the hydrological description of a basin.

Generalities; elements of size analysis porosity.

Occurrence of water in the soil.

pages figures tables refer- ences tation ences water flow towards recover w o r k s

b y c h a p t e r s .

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author

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cerned Additional information on the contents.

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-Relative proportions of elements by weight and volume; graphic representation of the solid water air complex; field measurement of moisture; stor-

age coefficient.

Theoretical study; zone of saturation; zone of aeration; distribution of water in the topsoil France,

Nether

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lands, and the subsoil; lysimeters.

Great Britain.

D o w n w a r d movement. Infiltration; upward m o v e

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ment. Capillary rise.

Generalities on the flow of liquids; flow regimes;

laminar flow; Darcy's L a w ; hydraulic gradient;

permeability; flow dis charge and velocity; flow in unsaturated zones; velocity of capillary rise;

validity and limits of application of Darcy's L a w ; trans mis sivity ; generalization of D a r cy's L a w ; turbulent and transition regimes.

Dupuit's formulae; derivation, limitation and validity. Application of Dupuit's formulae to a well in an unconfined aquifer; wells in confined aquifers;

anisotropy of the aquifer m e d i u m ; equilibrium

formulae. Incomplete wells, capacity of an unknown aquifer, inclined substratum; unconfined aquifer

with

recharge by infiltration.

G. CASTANY:

Traité pratique des eaux souterraines.

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ences ric surface of

ground -water aquifers 1135 pages

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Generalities. 1 17.

Variations of the24 piezometric sur

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face.

Relations be

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tween aquifers and free water surface.

b y c h a p t e r s .

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ce rned Additional information on the contents.

Derivation of non-equilibrium formulae, graphical solutions, recovery curves; effects of pumping on aquifers, interference of wells.

Generalities, pumping tests on a single well and on a well with observation wells.

Piezometric levels, types of aquifers, axialsym- metric drawdown curves, characteristics of an

aquifer's conditions for recharge and drainage.

Tunisia, France, Morocco.

Making and interpreting isopiezometric m a p s .

France, Natural variations of seasonal, long-term or short

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Argentina, t e r m character. Artificial fluctuations.

Morocco, California, Tunisia.

U . S. S. R.

Pennsyl- vania, France, Morocco.

Structural and hydrological relationships, concrete examples, components of a hydrograph, depletion curves, emptying of a n aquifer, balance of fresh and salt water at oceans shore.

Classification of reserves, calculation of total and regulatory reserves, calculation of the water balance.

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Part

VI.

Karst h y - drogeolog;. -;:;ehT

mineral waters pages=16%

22. Ground water 36 in lime stone.

Karst hydrol- ogy.

23. T h e r m o m i n e r - 58 al waters.

Alphabetical index. 7 Index of formulae. 7

4 7

2 16 1959

10 38 1960

676 41 1 83 332 1963

b y c h a p t e r s .

Original research by

author

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cerned Additional information on the contents.

U. S.

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Norway, Ice

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land, B elgium ,

Tunisia , France , Great Britain.

France, Generalities; physic0 -chemical characteristics;

Algeria ,

Italy, teristics.

G e r m a n y , Belgium.

Aquifer material; hydrogeological, lithological and stratigraphical characteristics of limestone;

role of geomorphology; examples of karst hydro- geology; water prospecting in limestone areas.

classification; origin; hydrogeological charac

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G. CASTANY:

Traité pratique des eaux souterraines.

Detailed analysis of the work.

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T h e author has emphasized his book to practical needs and in most cases c o m - pares the conclusions reached by mathematical methods with observed reality.

The subjects of the different chapters are not provided with an equally large number of details.

F l o w and losses are explained brilliantly and

with

originality. T h e laws of infiltration and evaporation of ground water are hardly touched upon, studies of

the

ground -water balance are lacking.

Part

II

is very clear due to the excellent explanation of occurrence of water in the soil and the different moisture belts.

The validity and limitation of Darcy's law are explained remarkably well and in detail. The analysis of turbulent a.nd transition regimes is too brief.

One of the best parts of the book is that on ground-water flow towards recovery works, where the author's synthesis is fully developed and illustrated with numerous examples.

Part

V

on the piezometric surface of aquifers is the most original of the book.

Of especial value are the chapters dealing with the morphology of the piezometric surface, variations in level of

the

piezometric surface and relations between aquifers and free water surfaces. T h e chapter on aquifer reserves is also well done. Therê is no analysis of the problem of the potential yields. The section on drawdown curves is limited to the case of steady flow.

T h e chapter on karst hydrology is short. The m o v e m e n t and the reserves of karst water and their recharge are not treated. The chapter on thermomineral water is only an outline of the subject.

The book is particularly directed towards hydrologists, but hydrological engineers will also find it useful.

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