Flow and solute transport monitoring in the karst aquifer in SW Slovenia

Environmental Geology

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 269-276

  Trcek B ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SLOVENIA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Epikarst zone; Hydraulic behaviour; Karst aquifer; SW Slovenia

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; ELASTIC MODULI; FLOW OF WATER; FLUID MECHANICS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; HYDROGEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MECHANISMS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS;

AQUIFER RECHARGING; DISCHARGE PROCESSES; EPIKARST; HYDRAULIC BEHAVIOUR; KARST AQUIFERS; KARST GROUND WATER; LOCAL FLOWS; NATURAL TRACERS; PRECIPITATION (METALLOGRAPHY); PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; REGIONAL SCALES; SATURATED ZONE (SZ); SLOVENIA; SPRINGER (CO); STORM EVENTS; TRANSPORT MECHANISMS; UNSATURATED ZONES; VARIATIONS OF; ZACATECAS , MEXICO;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; CATCHMENT; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; KARST HYDROLOGY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; RECHARGE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACER; UNSATURATED FLOW; VADOSE ZONE; WATER FLOW;

EURASIA; EUROPE; HUBELJ SPRING; SLOVENIA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 46249090322     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-1001-6     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Batiot C, Emblach C, Blavoux B, Simler R, Daniel M (2000) Organic matter in karstic aquifers: a potential tracer in the carbon cycle. A small-scale laboratory model approach. In: Proceedings of the TraM'2000 on Conference Tracers and Modelling in Hydrogeology, IAHS, Liège, pp 459-463
2. Brooks PD, Mcknight DM, Bencala KE (1999) The relationship between soil heterotrophic activity, soil dissolved organic carbon (DOC) leachate, and catchment-scale DOC export in headwater catchments. Water Resour Res 35/6:1895-1902
3. Clark ID, Fritz P (1997) Environmental isotopes in hydrogeology. Lewis Publishers, New York, pp 311
4. Čenčur Curk B, Veselič M (1999) Laboratory and experimental study of contaminant transport in fractured and karstified rock. RMZ-Mater Geoenviron 46/3:425-442
5. Helsel DR, Hirsch RM (1992) Statistical methods in water resources. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 522
6. Hongve D (1999) Production of dissolved organic carbon in forested catchments. J Hydrol 224:91-99
7. Janež J, Čar J, Habič P, Podobnik R (1997) Water resources of the High karst, Karst groundwater vulnerability of Banjšice, Trnovski gozd, Nanos and Hrušica. Geologija d.o.o., Idrija, pp 167
8. Kendall C, McDonnell JJ (1998) Isotope tracers in catchment hydrology. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 722
9. Kiraly L, Perrochet P, Rossier Y (1995) Effect of the epikarst on the hydrograph of karst springs: a numerical approach. Bull Hydrogéol 14:199-220
10. th International congress of speleology, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 306 pp
11. Klimchouk AB (2000) The formation of epikarst and its role in vadose speleogenesis. In: Speleogenesis, evolution of karst aquifers, January edn., National Speleological Society Inc., Huntsville, pp 91-99
12. Kogovšek J, Petrič M (2004) Advantages of longer-term tracing-three case studies from Slovenia. Environ Geol (Berl) 47:76-83
13. Mangin A (1975) Contribution à l'étude hydrodinamique des aquiferes karstiques, DES thesis. Ann Speleol 29/3:282-332
14. Matičič B (1997) Agricultural threats to pollution of water of Trnovsko-Banjška Planota. In: Kranjc A (ed) Karst hydrogeological investigations in southwestern Slovenia, Acta Carsologica 26/1, p 102-113
15. Petrič M (2002) Characteristics of recharge-discharge relations in karst aquifer. Slovene academy of sciences and arts, Karst Research Institute, Postojna-Ljubljana, p 154
16. Trček B (2001) Solute transport monitoring in the unsaturated zone of the karst aquifer by natural tracers. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, 125 pp
17. Trček B (2002) Epikarst zone of a karst aquifer-its characteristics and importance in karst hydrogeology. Geologija 45/2:573-578
18. Trček B (2003) Epikarst zone and the karst aquifer behaviour, a case study of the Hubelj catchment, Slovenia. Geological Survey of Slovenia, Ljubljana, pp 100
19. Trišič N (1997) Hydrology. In: Kranjc A (eds) Karst hydrogeological investigations in southwestern Slovenia. Acta Carsologica 26/1, pp 19-30
20. Williams PW (1983) The role of the subcutaneous zone in karst hydrology. J Hydrol 61:45-67