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Over the last twenty years there have been new developments in the field of hydrogeology and an enlargement of the scope into environmental concerns. This dictionary incorporates the terms that have become important in the vocabulary of environmental hydrogeology to do justice to these new developments. It is in part a revised and enlarged edition of Elsevier's Dictionary of Hydrogeology which was published in 1969. Approximately two thirds of the material in this dictionary is new. The terms covered deal with the geology of groundwater within the framework of the hydrologic cycle, geohydrology, contaminant hydrology, computer application to groundwater and subsurface pollution problems, environmental implications of groundwater use, regulatory aspects of groundwater protection, wellhead protection programs, interaction of groundwater systems with biogeochemical cycles, geochemistry of natural waters and contaminant chemistry, and water resources management. The present dictionary fills a gap in a field where a comparable work does not exist. Several glossaries or lists of terminology exist but these are not as extensive in scope nor in the number of entries. Often they cover only one or two languages. Joint multinational efforts by such organizations as UNESCO deal mainly with exact semantic definitions of concepts and basic terms and their correspondences in various languages. They are limited in scope and number of entries and therefore not suitable for rapid access to terminology as needed when translating foreign texts. The group of readers for which this work is intended are: earth scientists (earth-surface processes, hydrology, groundwater geology, groundwater flow, contaminant hydrology); environmental engineers (waste management and disposal, remedial activities in contaminated sites, environmental protection strategies, monitoring of pollution); environmental regulators, legislators, administrators, and consulting engineers in hydrogeology and hydrology.

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