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- Title
Isotope Oxygen-18 as Natural Tracer of Water Movement in a Coarse Gravel Unsaturated Zone.
- Authors
Mali, Nina; Urbanc, Janko
- Abstract
The unsaturated zone of an aquifer serves as a water reservoir which discharges water and eventual pollution to the saturated zone for a relatively long period after the cessation of surface input. Effective protection of a water resource requires detailed knowledge of transport mechanisms through the unsaturated zone with regard to its protective function. The article presents the application of isotope methods in the study of groundwater transport processes in the unsaturated zone of Selniška Dobrava coarse gravel aquifer. Emphasis is given to the use of environmental isotopes as natural tracers in the study of groundwater dynamics in the unsaturated zone. The estimation of groundwater flow characteristics was based on experimental work in lysimeter. Based on long-time isotope investigations with the use of lumped parameter models, some water flow parameters (mean residence time, mean matrix flow velocity) in the unsaturated zone were calculated. The results were compared with tracing experiment results in the same lysimeter.
- Subjects
ISOTOPES; OXYGEN; AQUIFERS; WATER pollution; WATER supply; GRAVEL; ZONE of aeration; HYDROGEOLOGY
- Publication
Water, Air & Soil Pollution, 2009, Vol 203, Issue 1-4, p291
- ISSN
0049-6979
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11270-009-0012-1