Unit name | Environmental Geochemistry |
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Unit code | EASC20011 |
Credit points | 10 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1B (weeks 7 - 12) |
Unit director | Emeritus Professor. Sherman |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites | |
Co-requisites | |
School/department | School of Earth Sciences |
Faculty | Faculty of Science |
Hydrolic cycle; surface waters; aquifers; groundwater; concentration gradients; diffusion; hydrodynamic dispersion; recycling; Eh and pH; migration and control of metals, pollutants in soil, groundwater and surface water; chemical equilibria; waste- disposal; agricultural pollutants; toxicity; microbiological processes which degrade organic pollutants.