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Learning Activity - Specific knowledge concerning the chemical processes that occur within soil and water systems including an understanding of the major physico-chemical processes that generate waters of different chemistries at or near the Earth's surface
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| Module | BIOS2035 - Soil and Water Science |
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- Knowledge of the hydrologic cycle, geomorphology related to lake and river formation, run-off and evaporation. |
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- Awareness that the geological environment of a lake/river may affect its chemistry. |
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- Understanding of the mechanisms generating rainfall and factors affecting rainfall chemistry. |
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- Understanding of the major physico-chemical and biological processes that generate waters of different chemistries at or near the Earth’s surface. |
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- Understanding of the controls on surface water chemistry. |
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- Understanding of the controls on sub-surface water chemistry. |
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- Understanding of the key water quality indicators and how to measure them. |
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- Awareness of how solubility calculations can assist in assessing hazard. |
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- Knowledge of how mineral stability diagrams can be used to inform and make deductions about controls on water chemistry. |
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- Understanding of the principles, terminology and calculations used to describe the solubility of minerals in ambient geochemical environments. |
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- Knowledge of the major adsorption surfaces in soils and sediments including underlying mechanisms and their significance. |
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- Knowledge of redox, how it is described and controlled and the use of redox potential as an environmental indicator. |
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- Understanding of the role of kinetics. |
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- Understanding of diffusion |
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- Knowledge of the geochemistry of saline and sodic soils |
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