IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEO-GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY AND HEMATITE ON MARS. B. Beitler, and M. A. Chan, W. T. Parry, J. Ormö, G. Komatsu, University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics, (135 South 1460 East, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0111, [email protected]), Centro de Astrobiología (INTA/CSIC), (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Ctra de Torrejón a Ajalvir, km 4, 28850 Torrej...

Hangzhou, China, is a world-famous tourist city. With the increase of the urban population and the development of tourism, the requirement of the quantity and quality of groundwater is steadily increasing. Hangzhou region evolved from the ancient shallow sea gulf. According to the local chronicle (Compilation Commission on Hangzhou Chorography (CCHC) 2000), the subsurface water was not potable ...

Time-lapse resistivity measurements and groundwater geochemistry were used to study salinity effect on groundwater aquifer at the ex-promontory-land of Carey Island in Malaysia. Resistivity was measured by ABEM Terrameter SAS4000 and ES10-64 electrode selector. Relationship between earth resistivity and total dissolved solids (TDS) was derived, and with resistivity images, used to identify wate...

Environmental concerns regarding the potential for drinking water contamination in shallow aquifers have accompanied unconventional energy development in the northern Appalachian Basin. These activities have also raised several critical questions about the hydrogeological parameters that control the naturally occurring presence and migration of hydrocarbon gases in shallow aquifers within petro...

Karst aquifers occur in a range of climatic and geologic settings. Nonetheless, they are commonly characterized by their vulnerability to water-quality impairment. Two karst aquifers, the Edwards aquifer in south-central Texas and the Upper Floridan aquifer in western Florida, were investigated to assess factors that control the movement of contaminants to public-supply wells (PSWs). The geoche...

22 Groundwater contamination was characterised using a methodology which combines 23 shallow groundwater geochemistry data from 17 piezometers over a 2 yr period in a 24 statistical framework and hydrogeological techniques. Nitrate-N (NO3-N) 25 contaminant mass flux was calculated across three control planes (rows of 26 piezometers) in six isolated plots. Results showed natural attenuation occu...

Earthquakes are among the most destructive natural events. The 6 April 2009, 6.3-Mw earthquake in L'Aquila (Italy) markedly altered the karstic Gran Sasso Aquifer (GSA) hydrogeology and geochemistry. The GSA groundwater invertebrate community is mainly comprised of small-bodied, colourless, blind microcrustaceans. We compared abiotic and biotic data from two pre-earthquake and one post-earthqua...

The objective of this study was to identify chemical components that could distinguish chemical mixtures in oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) that had potentially migrated to groundwater in the oil sands development area of northern Alberta, Canada. In the first part of the study, OSPW samples from two different tailings ponds and a broad range of natural groundwater samples were assessed...