Groundwater hydrology and engineering geology

Description: The discipline contains data on water and physical and mechanical properties of rocks, conditions of formation of the chemical composition of underground waters, bases of the calculations defining the movement of underground waters under natural conditions and also when pumping water from wells. Bases hydrogeological and engineering-geological estimates of rocks are given at exploration and operation of mineral deposits.

Amount of credits: 5

Пререквизиты:

• General and historical geology

Course Workload:

Component: Component by selection

Cycle: Profiling disciplines

Goal

• To lay the theoretical foundations of knowledge in hydrogeology and engineering geology. To acquaint students with the theoretical aspects of modern engineering geology, the problems of identifying the features of engineering-geological and hydrogeological features of the exploitation of mineral deposits and the prospects for their development.

Objective

• Students receive theoretical knowledge about the most important applied geological sciences: engineering geology and hydrogeology - as an extensive field of knowledge about the upper part of the lithosphere. Study of physico-mechanical and water-physical properties of rocks as a basis for assessing their condition in mountain ranges. Study of engineering and geological studies at various stages of exploration of mineral deposits and design of mining enterprises. Study of the origin, conditions of occurrence and formation, laws of groundwater movement for teaching students the simplest methods of combating water flows in surface and underground mine workings. Familiarity with the methods of active struggle with groundwater and unfavorable engineering-geological phenomena.

Learning outcome: knowledge and understanding

• Knowledge of: fundamentals of terminological and conceptual scientific language of hydrogeology and engineering geology; basic classification and methods of classification of groundwater and soils approved by regulatory documents; basic methods of cartographic representation of hydrogeological and engineering-geological conditions; standard methods of hydrogeological calculations and calculations of the stress state of rocks in natural conditions and at the base of engineering structures. Understanding: the main hydrogeological and engineering-geological processes and phenomena, fundamental laws describing them

Learning outcome: applying knowledge and understanding

• The knowledge is used, in particular, to address issues of water supply, land reclamation, environmental consequences of hydraulic engineering (reservoirs, etc.), the exploitation of underground drinking, technical, mineral, industrial and thermal water deposits, as well as the forecast of water flows into the mine workings of solid mineral deposits (mines, quarries).

Learning outcome: formation of judgments

• Professionally competently analyze hydrogeological and engineering-geological maps, substantiate relevant patterns, formulate design tasks for a given purpose on the map; use certain methods of classifying groundwater and soils.

Learning outcome: communicative abilities

• to form the ability as part of a research team to participate in the preparation of scientific and production reports, abstracts, bibliographies on the subject of scientific research, in the preparation of publications

Learning outcome: learning skills or learning abilities

• The acquired skills will allow us to identify, improve existing and introduce new methods of conducting hydrogeological research and conducting hydrogeological surveys, prospecting and exploration for groundwater, monitoring of groundwater and hazardous geological processes

Teaching methods

Interactive lectures (discussions and slide shows, films, lectures from YouTube and other social networks); - development of team projects and protection of results based on results

Topics of lectures

• Fundamentals of hydrogeology
• Water resources of the earth and the water cycle in nature
• Water in rocks, water properties of rocks
• Formation and types of groundwater
• Physical properties, chemical composition and quality of groundwater
• The basic laws of the movement of groundwater groundwater
• Methods of hydrogeological research
• Drainage of mineral deposits
• Fundamentals of engineering geology
• Engineering-geological classifications of rocks
• Physical and mechanical properties of rocks
• Engineering-geological processes and phenomena
• Engineering and geological research
• Characteristics of geological and engineering-geological processes in the area of mining facilities under construction and in operation
• Engineering-geological research and lithomonitoring at mining enterprises

Key reading

• Мамина С.Е. и др. Руководство к практическим занятиям по инженерной геологии.- М.: Недра, 2015. 125 с..
• Гидрогеология и инженерная геология : учебник / А. М. Гальперин, В. С. Зайцев, В. М. Мосейкин, С. А. Пуневский. — Москва : МИСИС, 2019. — 424 с.
• Гидрогеология : учебное пособие / составитель А. Н. Соловицкий. — Кемерово : КемГУ, 2019. — 119 с

Further reading

• Практикум по инженерной геологии : учебное пособие / составитель Л. А. Строкова. — Томск : ТПУ, 2015. — 128 с3.
• Справочник гидрогеолога под. ред. Альтовского М.Е.. М.:Недра,2010. 616с.
• Гальперин А.М. , Зайцев В.С. Гидрогеология и инженерная геология.-М.: Недра, 2009.-383с.