Abstract
Abstract The paper describes the influence of Jozsef Toth and his groundwater flow theory on the evolution of paradigms in Hungarian hydrogeology. The artesian mechanism has been the basic framework for hydrogeologists for the last two centuries. The evolution from the artesian paradigm to basin hydraulics took place in four stages in Hungary. The first stage was represented by the activity of Szebenyi (1955), Urbancsek (1963) and Ronai (1963). Their studies were limited to shallow depths, recognizing the correlation between downward and upward flow with high and low topography, but did not produce a model for the observed pattern. In the second stage Erdelyi (1976) enhanced the gravity-driven flow-pattern for shallow depths but avoided the question of deep overpressures. In the third stage Toth and Almasi (2001) concluded that the groundwater flow pattern is made up of an overpressured regime driven by tectonic compression and a topography-driven meteoric regime above it. In the fourth stage Toth and Alm...
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