Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY
Volume 55, Issue 6, Pages 1219-1233Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-1067-1
Keywords
Guarani Aquifer; fluoride in groundwater; hydrogeology
Funding
- CNPq/CTPETRO [500144/2002-8]
- Geological Survey of Brazil
- National Department of Mineral Production
- Companhia Matogrossense de Mineracao
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This work presents petrological and geochemical results of the black shales interval from Permian and Devonian strata of the Parana Basin, Brazil and its relationships with fluoride of groundwater from Guarani Aquifer System. The Guarani Aquifer, located in South Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentine, presents contents of fluoride higher than the Brazilian accepted potability limits. Several hypotheses have been presented for the origin of the fluoride in the groundwater of the Guarani Aquifer. Microcrystalline fluorite was registered in black shales of Ponta Grossa and Irati formations from Parana Basin. The results shown in this work suggest that fluoride present in groundwater of Guarani Aquifer can be originated in deeper groundwater that circulates in Ponta Grossa and Irati formations. The interaction of the groundwater coming from deeper black shales with the groundwater-bearing Aquifer Guarani System occurs through regional fragile structures (faults and fractures) that constitute excellent hydraulic connectors between the two sedimentary packages. The microcrystalline fluorite registered in Ponta Grossa and Irati Formations can be dissolved promoting fluoride enrichment in groundwater of these black shales and Guarani Aquifer System.
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