 | What is a karst aquifer? |
| Why is the hydrogeology of karst
aquifers particularly complex? |
| What is the difference between
concentrated and dispersed recharge? |
| What is the difference between conduit
and diffuse flow? |
| Can you define the following terms?:
saturated storage, unsaturated storage, dynamic storage,
perennial storage. |
| Differences in the water chemistry of
karst aquifers reflect the interplay between which three
factors? |
| Which is most likely to attain
saturation with calcite, concentrated or dispersed
recharge? |
| Why is ground water discharging from
springs in the Haney Formation commonly undersaturated
with calcite? |
| Explain how calcite-undersaturated
waters dissolving limestone in karst aquifers can be
adjacent to seeps precipitating calcite in caves. |
| Explain how the variability of water
chemistry can be used to distinguish between a diffuse
flow system and a conduit flow system. |
| What does the fact that diffuse and
conduit springs in Pennsylvania show the same seasonal
variations in partial pressure of CO2 tell us
about their access to atmospheric CO2? |
| Explain why, in the Mammoth Cave,
Kentucky study, there was decoupling between discharge,
conductance and turbidity/slash fecal coliform bacteria
during the storm event. |
