Integrating petrography, mineralogy and hydrochemistry to constrain the influence and distribution of groundwater contributions to baseflow in poorly productive aquifers: Insights from Gortinlieve catchment, Co. Donegal, NW Ireland

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 500-501, Issue , 2014, Pages 224-234

  Caulfield, John ^a   Chelliah, Merlyn ^a   Comte, Jean Christophe ^b   Cassidy, Rachel ^c   Flynn, Raymond ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baseflow; Clay; Fracture porosity; Groundwater; Poorly productive bedrock aquifers; Weathering

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CATCHMENTS; CLAY; CLAY ALTERATION; CLAY MINERALS; EROSION; FRACTURE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; MAGNESIUM; MICA; MINERALS; PETROGRAPHY; POROSITY; RIVERS; RUNOFF; SURFACE WATERS; WEATHERING;

BASEFLOWS; BEDROCK AQUIFERS; CHEMICAL DENUDATION; FRACTURE POROSITY; HYDROCHEMICAL DATA; MONTMORILLONITE CLAY; SMALL-SCALE STRUCTURES; WEATHERING PROFILES;

HYDROCHEMISTRY;

ALBITE; BICARBONATE; CALCIUM ION; CHLORITE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GROUND WATER; ILLITE; ILLITE MONTMORILLONITE CLAY; MAGNESIUM ION; MINERAL; MONTMORILLONITE; MUSCOVITE; RAIN; SURFACE WATER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AQUIFER; BASEFLOW; CATCHMENT; CHEMICAL WEATHERING; CLAY; DISSOLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; MINERALOGY; PETROGRAPHY; POROSITY;

AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BASEFLOW; CATCHMENT; CHEMICAL DENUDATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOLUTION; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLOW RATE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROCHEMISTRY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; IRELAND; MINERALOGY; NATURAL SCIENCE; PETROGRAPHY; PH; PRECIPITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SOIL DEPTH; SPATIAL SOIL VARIABILITY; STREAM (RIVER); WATER ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY; WATER TEMPERATURE; WEATHERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HYDROLOGY; PROCEDURES; RIVER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COUNTY DONEGAL; IRELAND; ULSTER [IRELAND];

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; HYDROLOGY; IRELAND; RIVERS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84922481937     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2014.08.105     Document Type: Article

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