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HYDROGEOLOGY JOURNAL
卷 26, 期 1, 页码 197-213出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10040-017-1619-8
关键词
Groundwater management; Salinization; Geochemistry; Isotopes; USA
资金
- Texas Water Development Board
Understanding groundwater salinity sources in the Gulf Coast Aquifer System (GCAS) is a critical issue due to depletion of fresh groundwater and concerns for potential seawater intrusion. The study objective was to assess sources of groundwater salinity in the GCAS using similar to 1,400 chemical analyses and similar to 90 isotopic analyses along nine well transects in the Texas Gulf Coast, USA. Salinity increases from northeast (median total dissolved solids (TDS) 340 mg/L) to southwest (median TDS 1,160 mg/L), which inversely correlates with the precipitation distribution pattern (1,370- 600 mm/yr, respectively). Molar Cl/Br ratios (median 540-600), depleted delta H-2 and delta O-18 (-24.7aEuro degrees, -4.5aEuro degrees) relative to seawater (Cl/Br similar to 655 and delta H-2, delta O-18 0aEuro degrees, 0aEuro degrees, respectively), and elevated Cl-36/Cl ratios (similar to 100), suggest precipitation enriched with marine aerosols as the dominant salinity source. Mass balance estimates suggest that marine aerosols could adequately explain salt loading over the large expanse of the GCAS. Evapotranspiration enrichment to the southwest is supported by elevated chloride concentrations in soil profiles and higher delta O-18. Secondary salinity sources include dissolution of salt domes or upwelling brines from geopressured zones along growth faults, mainly near the coast in the northeast. The regional extent and large quantities of brackish water have the potential to support moderate-sized desalination plants in this location. These results have important implications for groundwater management, suggesting a current lack of regional seawater intrusion and a suitable source of relatively low TDS water for desalination.
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