Water Circulation In Rocks

Download or read book Water Circulation in Rocks written by Laura Scesi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding water circulation in rocks represents a very important element to solving many of the problems linked with civil, environmental and mining engineering. This book offers a synthesis of the actual knowledge about the fluid flow in rocks: - from the medium characterization and the structural geological survey to the generation of stereonets; - the evaluation of the hydrogeological parameters using either deterministic or probabilistic methodologies; - the evaluation of the preferential flow direction considering the change of the hydrogeological structures; - the methods and models used to simulate the flows. Three case studies are provided; water circulation and slope instability, hydrogeological risk linked with tunnelling, and hydrogeological risk linked with road construction.