Geology 210    Class Preparation Questions

Flow nets, aquifer properties

What is a flow line?  What is the relationship between a flow line and an equipotential line? How are flow nets constructed?

What is the relationship between capillarity and flow in the unsaturated zone?

What is dispersion?  Why is important?

How do we calculate groundwater flow velocity?

What is transmissivity?  Storativity?

What is a cone of depression?