Hydrogeochemistry Fundamentals and Advances, Groundwater Composition and Chemistry (Volume 1)

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This textbook includes main sections of hydrogeochemistry, methods of its
study, terminology and concepts. Th e textbook is based on the experience
and traditions of teaching hydrogeochemistry at the Hydrogeology department
of the Sankt-Peterburg State University. Th ese traditions were laid
by a brilliant lecturer and scientist Vera Sergeyevna Samarina who taught
hydrogeochemistry over a period of almost 40 years and wrote one of the
fi rst textbooks in this discipline. Th ese traditions were extended by M.А.
Martynova, Е.V. Chasovnikova, M.V. Charykova and other lecturers in the
department.
Th e textbook includes three sections. In the fi rst section study methods
are reviewed of the geologic medium’s hydrogeochemical state. Provided
in the section are concepts of analytical ground water composition and
properties, and methods of their study. At the conclusion of the section are
analysis methods of collected materials, methods of constructing maps,
cross-sections and models of ground water geochemical state. Th e second
section introduces spontaneous processes in the water connected with the
disruption of thermodynamical equilibrium. Th e processes are reviewed in
consideration of a complex geologic environment, in order to give the idea
of methods used for their numerical modeling. Th e last section reviews
external factors of the formation of ground water composition in diff erent
climatic and geologic conditions. Th e spotlight of the section is on the
formation of the ground waters’ composition, their interaction between
themselves and with enclosing rocks. Figuratively, if we view the ground
water as a living organism, the fi rst section is discussing its anatomy, the
second, its psychology and physiology and the third one, its destiny.