Talk:Coastal hydrogeology

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Did you know... that the groundwater level of a coastal aquifer system changes with the tide?

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Recommendations for improvement

1. More explanation could be added in the description columns for different types of aquifers. For example, in the ‘unconfined continental coastal aquifer’ part, how water flows within the transition zone? If you are afraid that might be too wordy, you can treat this table as a summary table and more details could be written in paragraph form.

2. The sentence ‘suppose the rock is homogeneous in the different models so that the hydraulic conductivity is uniform’ should be put at top of the table since it is an assumption for different types of aquifers.

3. It would be great if the diagram can be enlarged a bit for easier reading since the diagrams are important to assist readers to understand the concept you wanna bring out.

4. Overall, the content is detailed, clear and easy to understand. There are also quite a lot of diagrams provided to assist my understanding.

Hope the above recommendations help! :) Mikocheung (talk) 12:36, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

1. Brief explaination on how an aquifer works in coastal areas might help introduce the section about different aquifer types

2. Colouring all diagrams in the "Freshwater-Seawater Interface in Coastal Aquifers" section would definetly help visualise the position of the interface.

3. It might be helpful to label diagrams in numbers and refer to them in text. Since there are many diagrams, this might help readers find the relevant diagrams more easily.

Nice work, cheers! Matt.chw (talk) 15:30, 17 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Further Comments

1. For the figure next to Seawater Intrusion Section and the modified Schmorak and Mercado(1969) figure, it may be better to add the word 'pumping' next to the well like what you did for other figures.

2. I cannot quite follow when 'tidal efficiency' is mentioned in that section. Can you elaborate more on that?

3. There are some grammatical errors (I'm not a 100% sure about these):

a. the first two sentences of the last paragraph of the introduction should be combined.

b. 'Ghijben – Herzberg Principle purposed...' proposed?

c. Hard rock *aquifers* are composed of...

d. Sentences in the Well Design Improvements section

4. the fonts in some figures are a bit small or unlcear, e.g., Figure C of Seawater Intrusion and the figure modified from Jiao and Post (2019).

Hope this helps. Cheers. Matt.chw (talk) 11:50, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Recommendations from Timothy

Some word choices may be a tad bit weird eg. Hard Rock Aquifer - "Hard rock aquifer composites of igneous rock or metamorphic rock or both." would be preferable if "composite" were replaced by "are composed"
Some very minor grammar issues eg. Hard Rock Aquifer - "Low porosity hard rock with different orientation of joints and fractures provides space..." "Groundwater ~~flows~~ flow direction is controlled by..." Limestone Aquifer - "Limestone aquifer is an aquifer that is made of carbonate minerals either marine limestone or bioclastic limestone." I would suggest you to either remove "carbonate minerals either" or replace "either" with ", namely". "Fine-grained limestone is has low porosity and permeability while bioclastic limestone is ~~an opposing case~~ the opposite/ antithesis. Seawater Intrusion - "Seawater intrusion is defined as a process that freshwater aquifer becomes salinized due to..." a verb/ action should follow "that" eg. "Seawater intrusion is defined as a process that salinizes freshwater aquifer due to.." alternatively you could change "that" to "where/ in which". There are some more trivial errors but I won't bore you with my grammar policing (I teach kids English as a part-time job and I've been told I can be a bit obnoxious lol) I won't mind doing a proof-read for you before the live Wikipedia, should I find the time...
I love how you used LOADS of diagrams (I'm a sucker for diagrams), I'm also a sucker for larger and colorful diagrams (meaning I'd like you to increase the size and color the diagrams).

Timothy D. Chow (talk) 06:48, 18 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Graeme

In the tidal section you mention "Tidal efficiency of the magnitude of the oscillation of water level in a well to the oscillation of sea level is about 42%-44%": I don't know what you mean by this, and is this just one example rather than a general statment?
The section "Chemical processes in coastal aquifer" covers a bit, but there appears to be more in the diagram unmentioned in text.
Are the lifeforms in these aquifers out of scope for this topic? I seem to remember a tiny animal lived between gains in the transition of salt-fresh.
Is this hydrology studied by any geophysical methods, such as electrical conductivity or ground penetrating radar, or only by looking in wells and springs?
For some diagrams, where the text cannot be read because it is too small, you could increase the font size. Also if you can use .svg format for your diagrams, they could then be translated into other languages more easily.

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 22:25, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Victor (14/11)

Here are some suggestions.

1. The title has to be all capitalized.

2. Some figures need to be bigger.

3. Not much need to improve, do pretty good job.

Thank you. VictorSo1031 (talk) 11:20, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Comments from Mohammad (15 Nov)

1 - The last two figures in the freshwater-seawater... section are smaller than the rest.

2 - The link for this word "biocarbonate" does not exist.

3 - You can increase the font size in the figures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mhmnia11 (talk • contribs) 11:21, 15 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by RoySmith (talk) 15:50, 18 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the groundwater level of a coastal aquifer system changes with the tide? Source: seen here https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/coastal-hydrogeology/tideinduced-airflow-in-unsaturated-zones/A66AA58D1AD5D539318916826790BEB1
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Atari 410

Moved to mainspace by Gabriel HY Lam (talk). Nominated by Graeme Bartlett (talk) at 11:42, 16 November 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
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Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
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No copyvio noticed, cite for hook on page 73 of the source given above, added to the article Whizz40 (talk) 19:30, 16 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]