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- Title
Geochemical and statistical evaluation of groundwater in Razan basin, Western Iran.
- Authors
Pazand, Kaveh
- Abstract
In order to identify the hydrogeochemical process controlling the quality of groundwater, in the Razan basin, Iran, groundwater samples were collected at 71 sites over a 300 km study area and analyzed for major ions. Scattered plots, hierarchical cluster analysis, and factor analysis were applied to a subgroup of the dataset to evaluate their usefulness to classify the groundwater samples and to identify the geochemical processes controlling groundwater geochemistry. The groundwater in the studied area can be classified as recharge area waters (Ca-SO and Ca-Mg-HCO types), transition area waters (Na-Cl type), and discharge area waters (Ca-Mg-SO-Cl type). The work shows that the hydrogeochemistry of the groundwater in the study area is mainly controlled by water-rock interaction and ions release through the dissolution of salts and carbonates, cation exchange, and weathering of silicates.
- Subjects
WATER chemistry; GROUNDWATER research; GEOLOGICAL basins; HIERARCHICAL clustering (Cluster analysis); CARBONATES
- Publication
Carbonates & Evaporites, 2016, Vol 31, Issue 2, p179
- ISSN
0891-2556
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s13146-015-0258-1