Groundwater

by R. Allan Freeze

Book Overview

A comprehensive presentation of groundwater hydrology that integrates chemistry, physics, geology, and calculus while applying theory to real-world geology. Provides quantitative methods of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0133653129
• Release Date: May 1979
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 604 Pages
• Weight: 2.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 7.2"

Customer Reviews

classic groundwater textbook

I lost my original copy of this book about 10 years ago and decided that I could no longer function without it! It is probably the best written textbook that I have ever owned. Complex groundwater topics are described in a manner that can be easily understood.

Groundwater

Overall a very good book. This is the text our Hydrogeology professor, Dr.J.Toth used in the 80's. It covers a great deal of information on facies,flow nets, hydrologic cycle, chemical evolution, groundwater resource evaluation, contamination, groundwater processes and a really good section on chemical principles and mass action. This is not a quantitative text, the discussions on finite difference and finite element methods include very little math. I would have also liked to have seen a better discussion of well hydraulics. I still turn to it for a reference as it is a very useful book.

A rigorous and quantitative basic reference

This is a good complement to "Groundwater Hydrology" by Todd. Freeze and Cherry is more detailed, rigorous, and quantitative than Todd, but it doesn't communicate the big picture quite as well. As well as an undergraduate textbook, this book is an essential resource for anyone working in the field.

The "bible" of groundwater

Despite the fact that this book was written almost twenty years ago, it is still considered the definitive work on groundwater geology. A must-have for hydrogeologists and groundwater engineers.