Hydrogeological Zones Inter-Disciplines Depth (mbgs) Increasing (Upward) Increasing (Downward)

Mining Eng. - Mining Enviro Real time Lag time

Mining Eng. - SW Management Zone of weathered rocks Zone of fresh rocks
Mining Eng. - SW & UG Hydraulic Connection Younger formation Older formation
Civil Eng. - Hydraulics Compressibility of rocks Incompressibility of rocks
Surface Water Civil Eng. - Hydrology >= 0 Uncompacted / unconsolidated rocks Compacted / consolidated rocks
Hydrometeorology - Water Balance Shorter residence time Longer residence time
Hydrometeorology - Hydrologic Cycle Fresh to brackis water Hihgher salinity / paleo water
Environmental Eng. - SW Quality Problem Fluid-rock interaction
Hydrogeology - SW & GW Interaction Rich oxygen content Anaerob range or scale
Ground Surface High oxidation rate Low oxidation rate
Mining Eng. - ARD Flow of fluid in porous media Flow of fluid in fractured media
1D Vadoze or Mining Eng. - Heap Leach Multi-components / multi-phase flow
Mining Eng. - Wet Ore Stockpile Multi-energy gradient driven flow
Unsaturated Zone Hydrometeorology - Infiltration
-10 to -30 (?)
Locality of flow Regionality of flow
(Above GWT) Hydrogeology - GW Recharge Inter-basin flow
Hydrogeology - SW & GW Intercation Geothermal gradient
Groundwater Table Confining pressure
Mining Eng. - Mine Dewatering Hydrostatic pressure
Mining Eng. - Rock Stability Formation pressure
Mining Eng. - GW Quality Problem Over / under pressure
2D & 3D Shallow Civil Eng. - GW Dewatering Geological role
Saturated Zone Civil Eng. - Soil Stability -10 to -1500 (?) Deep drilling
Civil Eng. - Tunneling Sophistication of technology
(Below GWT) Environmental Eng - GW Quality Problem Technology improvement
Hydrogeology - Eng. HG System approach / engineering system
Hydrogeology - Hydrogeochemistry Certainty Uncertainty
Uncertain (???) Reliability Risk
Petroleum Eng. - Conventional Hydrocarbon Capital and investment
3D Deep Petroleum Eng. - Non-Conventional Hydrocarbon Pricing
Environmental Eng. - Deep Repository Intensive tight decision making process
Unsaturated Zone Environmental Eng. - Carbon Capture & Storage
-800 to -4000 (?)

Saturated Zone Geothermal Eng. - Reservoir Eng.

Geothermal Eng. - Hot Dry Rock (Exploited)
Uncertain (???)
Geothermal Eng. - Hot Dry Rock (General)
Magmatic Zone Purely Geosciences
-6000 to -8000 (?) Exceptional Exceptional