Unit information: Environmental Geochemistry in 2009/10

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Unit name Environmental Geochemistry
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

Description including Unit Aims

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.