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Page numbers in bold denote tables. abandoned channel facies 133 concentration v. depth 280, 284 influence on fluid flow 148 Eaton boreholes 271 Abbey Arms Wood borehole, Delamere, Cheshire artesian flow 189,194 84-85 Aylesbeare Mudstone Group 120 arsenic concentration 265-284 core drilling and logging 268-269 bacteria, pathogenic 30 grain density 91,92-93, 94 barchan, Stoneraise Quarry 49 groundwater quality 271 barite 28, 29 hydrogeology 88-89 basins, sandstone, stress 5 lithofacies 87, 88 benzene see BTEX identification 90, 96 biodegradation, hydrocarbon 315,316, 317-318, mineralization 277-280 320-322 mini-permeametry 89-90, 92-93, 94-95, 99 Birmingham aquifer, minerals 28 permeability 89-90, 91, 92-93, 94-95, 97, 98, 99 Birmingham Fault 130 petrography 277-278 resistivity imaging 19 pore water 268, 273-277 Birmingham University see University of porosity 89, 91, 92-93, 92-93 Birmingham sampling 89, 268-269, 271-273 bleaching, fossil flow features 7, 8, 31, 32 sediment chemistry 278-279, 280, 281-282 Bold Formation 169 stratigraphy 86, 267 borehole testing 20, 22-25 acid-base reactions 31-32 Borrowdale Volcanic Group 156 aeolian deposits 3, 6 vertical diffusivity 158,158-160,161,163 Abbey Arms Wood borehole 87, 88, 90-91, 95, 98 breakthrough 34, 35 Otter Sandstone Formation 120 tracer Penrith Sandstone 49--63 laboratory-scale 20, 21 Wildmoor Sandstone Formation 133-134,137 non-reactive solute column experiments agriculture, source of nitrates 285-286 233-249 aliphatics 315,316,317, 319 pore-water and borehole sampling 20, chlorinated, sorption 33 22-25 alluvial-fan deposition 12 regional scale 25-27 amino-G-acid tracer 20, 22,234, 236,238-240, brines, Sherwood Sandstone 327,334,336 241-244 Brockram 156 anion sorption 33 vertical diffusivity 158,158-160,161,163 Annan Basin 188 bromide tracer 20, 234, 236, 238-240, 241-244 antifractures 17-18, 34, 35 Bromsgrove Sandstone Formation 3, 4,130 geophysical detection 18 BTEX 315,316,317, 319, 321 aquifers Budleigh Salterton Pebble Beds 120 biodegradation capacity 320-322 buffering 31-32 calcite see calcrete; cement, calcite heterogeneity 83 calcium carbonate 119 effect of calcrete 124-126 calcrete 119 impact on fluid flow 148,149,150 conglomerates 121,121,122,123-124,125 management, NW England 182 effect on porosity and permeability 124 oxidation capability 31, 35 groundwater 119,123,125 Archie formation factor equations 12-13, 54, 58, 72, pedogenic 119 205-206, 211,215 rhizocretions 121,122,125 pore factor m 205-206,208, 210, 211,212,213-214 sheets 122-123 Penrith Sandstone 54, 61 as source of heterogeneity, Otter Sandstone resistivity relationship 199, 200, 205-206 Formation 124-126 aromatics 315,316, 317, 319 see also palaeosol facies arsenic Calder Sandstone 156,157 in groundwater capillary characteristic model, petroleum Abbey Arms Wood borehole 265-284 hydrocarbons 297, 302-308 pore-water profile 274-275 capillary pressure source and distribution 280, 283-284 in DNAPL-water-sandstone system 255-257 From: BARKER,R. D. & TELLAM,J. H. (eds) 2006. Fluid Flow and Solute Movement in Sandstones: The Onshore UKPermo-Triassic Red Bed Sequence. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 263, 339-346. 0305-8719/06/$15 9The Geological Society of London 2006. Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/chapter-pdf/3885686/9781862395114_backmatter.pdf by guest on 02 October 2021 340 INDEX mercury injection conduction, matrix, and cation exchange capacity 32 Penrith Sandstone 54, 56--58, 60 conductivity Permo-Triassic sandstone 70-71, 72 electrolytic 55, 59 capture zones, well, Selby wellfield 335 excess 206-207 carbon, dissolved organic 30 hydraulic see hydraulic conductivity carbon tetrachloride 253 conglomerate, calcrete 121,121,122,123-124 carbonate contaminants, unsaturated flow and transport, dissolution 6, 7, 31, 35 Sherwood Sandstone 219 nodules 123 contamination non-ferroan, precipitation 6 groundwater 25 precipitation 119 dense non-aqueous-phase liquids 253-262 as source of heterogeneity, Otter Sandstone light non-aqueous-phase liquids, remediation Formation 119-126 project 297-302 Carboniferous nitrate 285-295 Coal Measures Series 178, 326, 327 Criffel-Dalbeattie granodiorite 188 mine-water sulphate isotopic composition 334, cross-bedding 336 Otter Sandstone Formation 120-121,121 Limestone Series 156,159-160,169 Wildmoor Sandstone Formation 132,133 Millstone Grit Series 169,177 cross-borehole electrical resistivity tomography cataclastic slip bands see granulation seams 219-220 Catchment Abstraction Management Strategies unsaturated Sherwood Sandstone 221-222 (CAMS) 182 cross-borehole radar tomography 219-220 cation-exchange capacity 32, 35,206, 212-215 unsaturated Sherwood Sandstone 222-225 cement Croxteth Fault 176 calcite 28, 29 Cu-EDTA 234, 238, 239 Abbey Arms Wood borehole 95, 96, 98,278 Cumbrian aquifer, groundwater minerals 28 Wildmoor Sandstone Formation boreholes cycles, depositional 3, 11, 34 146-147,148 cementation 7, 205 Dawlish, Permo-Triassic sandstone 7 quartz, Penrith Sandstone 51-52 deformation bands see granulation seams channel associations, multistorey, Otter Sandstone deglaciation, Dumfries Basin 189 Formation 120-121,123,123, 124 Delamere area, Cheshire channel fill public-supply wells 269-271,272,273, 274 calcrete conglomerate 124 see also Abbey Arms Wood borehole facies 132-133,134 Delamere Fault 269-270 Helsby Sandstone Formation 87, 88 Delamere Pumping Station 88 channel lag deposits 124,132,134,148 denitrification 30 channel migration 124 dense non-aqueous-phase liquids (DNAPL) chargeability, Permo Sandstone 73, 74, 75-76 capillary pressure 255-257 Cheshire Basin 4,174,175,17%178,179, 266 groundwater contamination 253-262 faults 169,181 relative permeability 257,262 fractures 13,14 spillage and penetration 254 granulation seams 181 wettability 254-255,261 head gradient 12 desorption see sorption-desorption reactions hydrogeology 88-89 diagenesis matrix heterogeneity 83-84 burial 6,145 Permo-Triassic sandstone 83-100 early 6 structure 84, 85 post-inversion 6 Chester Pebble Beds Formation 4,176 syndepositional 144-145 mudstone beds 181 uplift 146-147 chlorinated solvents see solvents, chlorinated Wildmoor Sandstone Formation boreholes chloroform 253 144-147 clay minerals 28 diffusion time, measurement 20, 24 effect on porosity, Sherwood Sandstone 106-107, diffusivity, vertical 160-166 110-111,113 Dimlington glaciation, Dumfries Basin 189 precipitation 6 dipersivity 34-35 Wildmoor Sandstone Formation 142,143,144,145 discontinuities 13-18, 34, 35 Coal Measures Series 178,326,327 Cheshire Basin 14 mine-water sulphate isotopic composition 334, geophysical detection 18 336 Wildmoor Sandstone Formation 137-139 Cole-Cole modelling, Permo-triassic sandstone 67, 68, see also fractures 69, 72, 76 dissolution, incongruent 31, 35 colloids 29 dissolution-precipitation reactions 28-29 Collyhurst Sandstone Formation 169 DNAPL see dense non-aqueous-phase liquids Downloaded from http://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/books/book/chapter-pdf/3885686/9781862395114_backmatter.pdf by guest on 02 October 2021 INDEX 341 dolocrete 134,135,136-137,148 Environment Agency, Catchment Abstraction dolomite 28,144-145 Management Strategies (CAMS) 182 dissolution 31 eodiagenesis 144-145 saturation 136 eskers, Dumfries Basin 189 dolomite concretions 134,135,136-137 ethylbenzene see BTEX Doweel Breccia 187-188, 191 European Union groundwater 190 Drinking Water Directive 253 hydraulic conductivity 195 Water Framework Directive 166,182, 295 drift deposits, effect on recharge 290-291,294-295 evaporite Drinking Water Directive, European Union 253 dissolution 6 Dumfries Basin aquifer 187-197 Selby aquifer 326-327,336 boreholes 189,190 sampling 327-328 contamination 189,190-191,194 evapotranspiration 122 discharge 190,194 geology 189 facies association groundwater abstraction 189,191 fluvial groundwater chemistry 191,193,194 Otter Sandstone Formation 120-121 groundwater flow, conceptual model 195-197 Wildmoor Sandstone Formation 132-133 nitrate concentration 189,190,191,193,194 subaerial dye staining 237-238, 244-245 Otter Sandstone Formation 120 Wildmoor Sandstone Formation 133-134, East Delamere Fault 85, 88 136-137 East Irish Sea Basin, faults 169 fault drag 181 East Midlands aquifer fault outcrops, Wirral Peninsula, NW England 8 groundwater minerals 28 fault-plane infill 181 redox reactions 30 faulting, base-metal mineralization 266 East Yorkshire, Sherwood Sandstone 103-117,104 faults 5 Eaton boreholes 269 effect on permeability 17-18, 35,181 arsenic concentration 271 and groundwater flow, NW England 169-183 Eden Valley 285,286 Fe II, redox reactions 30, 35 nitrate in groundwater 285-295 Fe III, redox reactions 30, 31 numerical modelling 289-295 feldspar recharge 285,288, 290-295 dissolution 7 Eggborough see also K-feldspar Sherwood Sandstone 103,104,105 FEMWATER finite-elementmodel 228 clay-rich lamination 109-110 Fiddlers Ferry, groundwater flow, fault control grain size and pore throat size 107,110-111, 179-180 117 flow hydraulic conductivity 107,113-114, 116-117 electrical 55, 58 petrophysical measurements 108 fossil 31 electrical resistivity fracture 22-24 downhole images 55 regional scale 25-27 electrical spectroscopy 65-80 groundwater 9-20 and hydraulic properties of reservoir rock layer-parallel 24, 34 199-200 matrix 9 Archie model 205-206,211,215 numerical modelling 22-23 full saturation 203,205,207 rock mass 18-20 Hanai-Bruggeman effective medium theory unsaturated, modelling 227-229 208-211,212-214, 215 fluorescein
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