UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS
B.Sc. DEGREE COURSE IN Industrial-Geology
SEMESTER SYSTEM WITH CREDITS
(Effective from the Academic Year 2003-2004)

SYLLABUS

Semester VI - Application Oriented Subject - Ground Water Geology and Exploration

Duration of Examination: 3 hrs
Maximum Marks: 100
Credits: 4

Unit I

Geological structures favouring ground water occurrence - Water bearing properties of rocks - Porosity, Permeability and Transmissivity - Storage coefficient - specific yield - specific retention and field capacity.

Unit II

Groundwater movement - Darcy's law and its applications - Determination of Permeability in the lab and field - Types of wells - well construction and development - collection of wells - Infiltration galleries.

Unit III

Quality of ground water - Pyhsical, chemical and biological constituents of groundwater - water quality criteria for drinking, industrial and irrigation purposes - Sea water intrusion in coastal aquifers and its preventive measures.

Unit V

Unit V

Piezometric tests, Pumping tests, Basin yield - Sources of ground water - Ground water exploration methods Electric, Resistivity methods - Groundwater basins in India,

Books Recommended

Ground water Hydrogeology by D.K. Todd, Wiley Interscience, New Delhi, 1982.

Ground water by H M. Ragunath, Wiley Interscience, New Delhi, 1987.

Groundwater Assessment, Development & Management by K.R. Karanth, Tata McRaw Hill Publishers, 1987.

Groundwater and Tube wells by S.P. Garg, Oxford & INH Publishers, 1982.