Hydrogeological Analysis

Understanding groundwater flow based on interpretation of the hydrogeological framework

Elements of a Hydrogeological Framework Synthesis

What is the context of the hydrogeological system in terms of geological history? What is the tectonic setting of the system? What specific tectonic events have determined the structure?

Elements of a Hydrogeological Framework Synthesis

What is the depositional (or constructional) setting of the units of particular interest? What is the architecture of the units? What types of features are nested at what scales? How do the nature and organization of the features control groundwater flow?

Plate Tectonics - the Driver for Geological Framework

Foreland Basins

Mechanism of Foreland Basin Formation

A Modern Foreland Basin

A Modern Foreland Basin

A Modern Foreland Basin

Ganges Foreland Basin

An Ancient Foreland Basin

Tectonic Setting of Passive Margins

Sequence Stratigraphy on Passive Margins

Controls on passive margin sequences

Global sequence stratigraphy (the Vail Curve)

Systems tracts on passive margins

what produced this topography?

Structure produced by rifting

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Closeup of Rifting Structures

Closeup of Rifting Structures

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A Modern Rift

SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS IN VARIOUS SETTINGS Sediments in extensional basins

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Ergs

Fluvial systems - Meandering rivers

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Braided rivers

Anastamosing rivers

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Evolution of Mississippi River fill through the late Quaternary

Tectonic setting for carbonate deposition

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Tectonic setting for carbonate deposition

Sedimentary facies in the reef environment

strata.geol.sc.edu/thinsections/carb-facies.html

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Water movement and diagenesis in carbonate marginal settings

Setting and flow properties in marine carbonate environments

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Alluvial architecture and scales of heterogeneity

Nested scales of heterogeneity in an aeolian/fluvial environment

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