Base Knowledge
Not applicable
Teaching Methodologies
Expository lectures using audiovisual media and interactive between student and teacher, with
use of theoretical-practical lessons to enhance understanding of the contents of the lectures.
Students are accompanied during the semester with questions, whenever requested, and as a
complement to education.
Are offered two hours per week, with pre-defined schedule or combine with the student.
Are also delivered to each student teaching props of all matter taught in each lesson, as well as
the references are recommended for discipline, at the beginning of the school year.
Learning Results
The curricular unit of Hydrogeology aims to enable the student with fundamental concepts and principles of underground hydrology and geology, as well as their applications, study of the different components of the surface hydrology, study of the propagation mechanism of water to ground level, opening and maintenance of funding and ways of contamination of aquifers.
Also wants to develop practical skills in the field of evaluation techniques, exploitation and management of groundwater resources, as well as the quality of water.
The student must acquire knowledge of:
Fundamental concepts and principles of underground hydrology and geology;
Components of surface hydrology;
Water propagation mechanism at the underground level;
Processes for opening and maintaining catchments and forms of aquifer contamination,.
The student must acquire skills to:
Develop practices in the field of assessment techniques, exploration and management of groundwater resources;
Recognize and understand the hydrological cycle;
The student must acquire competences to:
Research the amounts of water used by men in their activities;
Distinguish between contamination and pollution;
Recognize types of pollution;
Identify the various points of water contamination.
Program
1 -General notions of geology – 6 hours
1.1 – Mineral: definition, macroscopic properties and systematization
1.2 – Igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks: definition, macroscopic properties and
systematization
1.3 – General aspects of the Earth’s tectonic
1.4 – Topographic maps and geological maps
1.5 – Geology of Portugal
2 – Pedology – 2 hours
2.1 – Constitution and dynamism of a soil
2.2 – Macroscopic properties of a soil
3 – Principles of European Water Charter; distribution of water on Earth; importance of
groundwater and evolution of water consumption – 2 hours
4 – Hydrology – 6 hours
4.1 – Hydrological cycle
4.2 – Precipitation, infiltration, evapotranspiration and flow
4.3 – The water in soils and rocks
4.3.1 – Saturated and Unsaturated Zones
4.3.2 – Water balance at ground level
4.4 – Watershed
5 – hydrogeological formations – 8 hours
5.1 – Features: porosity, storage coefficient, coefficient of permeability and transmissivity
5.2 – Aquifer, aquitardo, aquicluso and aquífugo. Types of aquifers
5.3 – Statistics and dynamics in porous media
5.4 – Darcy’s Law
5.5 – Flow in saturated media: Zones of recharge and discharge
5.6 Emergency and natural types of artificial uptake
6 – Water Quality – 4 hours
6.1 – Physical, chemical, bacteriological and radioactive parameters
6.2 – Graphical representations and analytical expressions for chemical analysis
6.3 – Classification of hydrochemical water
6.4 – Quality and standards for water consumption: human, agricultural and industrial
6.5 – Portuguese regulation
7 – Underground water resources in Portugal – 2 hours
Theoretical-practical matrix
1- Observation of minerals and rocks – 1 hour
2 – Development of a topographic profile and a geological cut – 1 hour
3 – Consultation of geological maps, geological maps and identification of symbols related to
water resources – 1 hour
4 – Statistical analysis of rainfall data – 2 hours
5 – Determination of average and weighted rainfall in a watershed – 2 hours
6 – Determination of the values of RET and PET – 2 hours
7 – Performance of sequential monthly water balance at ground level – 2 hours
8 – Distribution of the values of P, R and ET in Portugal – 2 hours
9 – Application of Darcy’s Law – 2 hours
Curricular Unit Teachers
Internship(s)
NAO
Bibliography
Primary Bibliography:
Estudo e classificação das rochas por exame macroscópico costa, J. Botelho da Fundação
Calouste Gulbenkian 2000
Noções gerais de geologia e geologia geral de portugal abreu, m.m. edição aeisa 1994
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solução aquosa; iii mecanismos e processos de meteorização; iv comportamento das fases sólidas
no sistema sólido-líquido. Abreu, M.M. Edição Aeisa 1994/95/96
– Davies, S.W., Wiest, R. J. M., (1971) – Hidrogeologia Ariel
– Lencastre, A., Franco, F.M. (19849 – Lições de hidrologia. Univ. Nova de lisboa
– Rodrigues, J. D., (1984) – Noções de hidrogeologia. Geonovas, revista da associação portuguesa
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– Ferreira, M. P., (2000) – Recursos hidricos disponíveis e usaveis: âmbito das responsabilidades
autarquicas, instituto de investigação da água. Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da
Universidade de Coimbra
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– Introduction to geochemistry. 2nd edition. Krauskopf, K.B. Mc. Graw-hill int. Series in the earth
and planetary sciences 1983
– Le sol: interface dans l’environement, resource pour le développement Robert, M. Masson,
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– Manual de mineralogia, Dana, J.D. e Hurlbut, C.S. JR livros técnicos e científicos. Editora São
Paulo 1983
– Minerais constituintes das rochas – Uma introdução; Deer, W.A.; Howie, R.A. e Zussman, J.
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– Minerals in soil environments. 2ª edição J.B. Dixon e S. B. Weed (eds.) Soil sc. Soc. Of america.
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– A evolução do território português no decurso dos tempos geológicos, Teixeira, C. Revista
pedagógica e cultural nº 28, Liceu Pedro Nunes, Lisboa 1966
– Geologia: petrogénese e orogénese, Carvalho, a. M. Galopim Universidade Aberta, Lisboa 1997
– Geologia: morfogénese e sedimentogénese, Carvalho, A. M. Galopim Universidade Aberta, Lisboa 1996