Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY
Volume 52, Issue 6, Pages 1075-1084Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-006-0547-z
Keywords
ground water; hydrogeology; water supply; northern Banat; Pannonian basin
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Geological relationships, hydrogeology and chemical composition of ground water in northern Banat were studied through the period 2000-2004 using the available background data from published and unpublished sources. Northern Banat is the extreme northeastern part of the Republic of Serbia and a geotectonic part of the vast Pannonian depression. The source of domestic and industrial water supply is only groundwater from artesian and subartesian aquifers of Lower Pleistocene (Q(1)(1)) and Upper Pleistocene (Pl(3)(2)) sand deposits. The ground water, peculiar in chemical composition, is the only source of drinking water in the arid area. A notable variation in the chemical composition of artesian waters within the same geotectonic unit (Pannonian basin), abstracted for municipal water supplies of Kikinda, Novi Knezevac and Djala, has attracted attention of these authors. Our paper attempts to interpret the variation in the chemical composition of ground water and the cause of the variation by the interaction of ground water and rocks forming the aquifers on the case example of the water supply sources for the three mentioned towns. With respect to the depth and lithology of the aquifers, we interpret the varied chemical compositions of waters in the mentioned sources as a consequence of natural factors (geological environment), geological relationships and hydrogeological conditions.
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