In Search of Lost Springs: A Protocol for Locating Active and Inactive Springs

Groundwater

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 374-383

  Fensham, R J ^a,b   Silcock, J L ^a   Powell, O ^a   Habermehl, M A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^c BUREAU OF RURAL SCIENCES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEOLOGY;

ARTESIAN PRESSURE; FIELD-BASED DATA; GROUNDWATER EXPLOITATION; GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION; GROUNDWATER SPRINGS; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; LANDSCAPE FEATURE; TERTIARY SANDSTONES;

GROUNDWATER;

ARTESIAN WELL; DATABASE; EXPLOITATION; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; OUTCROP; SANDSTONE; SPRING WATER; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TERTIARY; WATER TABLE;

AUSTRALIA; GREAT ARTESIAN BASIN;

GROUND WATER;

AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; NATURAL SPRING;

AUSTRALIA; ECOSYSTEM; GROUNDWATER; HUMANS; NATURAL SPRINGS;

EID: 84946225568     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: 17456584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gwat.12375     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Abbott, T.K. 1881. On wells in liverpool plains. Journal of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 14: 281-292.
2. Ah Chee, D. 2002. Kwatye (water) in the Great Artesian Basin. Environment South Australia 9: 20-21.
3. Aldumairy, A. 2005. Siwa: Past and Present. Alexandria, Egypt: Yasso.
4. Baker, M.N., and R.E. Horton . 1936. Historical development of ideas regarding the origin of springs and ground-water. Transactions of the American Geophysical Union 17: 395-400.
5. Bandler, H. 1995. Water resources exploitation in Australian prehistory environment. The Environmentalist 15: 97-107.
6. Bayly, I.A.E. 1999. Review of how indigenous people managed for water in desert regions of Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 82: 17-25.
7. Bottoms, T. 2013. A Conspiracy of Silence. Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
8. Brune, G. 1981. Springs of Texas. Austin, Texas: Texas A&M University Press.
9. Bryan, K. 1919. Classification of springs. Journal of Geology 27: 522-561.
10. Carnegie, D.W. 1898. Spinifex and Sand: A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Exploring in Western Australia. Perth, Australia: Hesperian Press.
11. Cox, R., and A. Barron . 1998. Great Artesian Basin Resource Study (November 1998). Canberra, Australia: Great Artesian Basin Consultative Council.
12. Curewitz, D., and J.A. Karson . 1997. Structural settings of hydrothermal outflow: Fracture permeability maintained by fault propagation and interaction. Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 79: 149-168.
13. Eakin, T.E. 1966. A regional interbasin groundwater system in White River area southeastern Nevada. Water Resources Research 2: 251-271.
14. Erfurt-Cooper, P., and M. Cooper . 2009. Health and Wellness Tourism: Spas and Hot Springs. Bristol, UK: Channel View Publications.
15. Fairfax, R.J., and R.J. Fensham . 2003. Great Artesian Basin springs in southern Queensland 1911-2000. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 49: 285-293.
16. Fairfax, R.J., and R.J. Fensham . 2002. In the footsteps of J. Alfred Griffiths: A cataclysmic history of Great Artesian Basin springs in Queensland. Australian Geographical Studies 40: 210-230.
17. Faure, H., R.C. Walter, and D.R. Grant . 2002. The coastal oasis: Ice age springs on emerged continental shelves. Global and Planetary Change 33: 47-56.
18. Fensham, R.J., J.L. Silcock, B. Laffineur, and H.J. MacDermott . 2015. Hydrogeology, Cultural History and Biological Values of Springs in the Barcaldine, Springvale and Flinders River Supergroups, Galilee Basin and Tertiary springs of western Queensland. Canberra, Australia: Office of Water Science, Department of Environment.
19. Fensham, R.J., J.L. Silcock, A. Kerezsy, and W. Ponder . 2011. Four desert waters: Setting arid zone wetland conservation priorities through understanding patterns of endemism. Biological Conservation 144: 2459-2467.
20. Fensham, R.J., W.F. Ponder, and R.J. Fairfax . 2010. Recovery Plan for the Community of Native Species Dependent on Natural Discharge of Groundwater from the Great Artesian Basin. Canberra/Brisbane, Australia: Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts/Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management.
21. Fensham, R.J., and R.J. Fairfax . 2003. Spring wetlands of the Great Artesian Basin, Queensland, Australia. Wetland Ecology and Management 11: 343-362.
22. Fetter, C.W. 2001. Applied Hydrogeology. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
23. Fitts, C.R. 2002. Groundwater Science. London, UK: Academic Press.
24. GABCC. 2000. Great Artesian Basin Strategic Management Plan. Canberra, Australia: Great Artesian Basin Consultative Council.
25. Habermehl, M.A. 2001. Hydrogeology and environmental geology of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia. In Gondwana to Greenhouse-Australian Environmental Geoscience. ed. V.A. Gostin, 127-143, 344-346. Special Publication 12. Sydney, Australia: Geological Society of Australia Inc.
26. Habermehl, M.A. 1982. Springs in the Great Artesian Basin, Australia-Their origin and nature. Report 235. Canberra, Australia: Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics.
27. Habermehl, M.A. 1980. The Great Artesian Basin, Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics 5: 9-38.
28. Habermehl, M.A., J. Devonshire, and J. Magee . 2009. Sustainable groundwater allocations in the intake beds of the Great Artesian Basin in New South Wales (Recharge to the New South Wales part of the Great Artesian Basin). Final Report for the National Water Commission. Australian Government. Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra, Australia.
29. Habermehl, M.A., and J.E. Lau . 1997. Hydrogeology of the Great Artesian Basin, Australia (1:2 500 000 Map). Canberra, Australia: Australian Geological Survey Organisation.
30. Ilahiane, H. 1996. Small-scale irrigation in a multiethnic oasis environment: The case of Zauit Amelkis village, southeast Morocco. Journal of Political Ecology 3: 89-106.
31. IUCN. 1994. IUCN Red List Categories. Gland, Switzerland: International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
32. Keleher, M.J., and R.B. Rader . 2008. Bioassessment of artesian springs in the Bonneville Basin, Utah, USA. Wetlands 28: 1048-1059.
33. Kellett, J.R., T.R. Ransley, J. Coram, J. Jaycock, D.F. Barclay, G.A. McMahon, L.M. Foster, and J.R. Hillier . 2003. Groundwater recharge in the Great Artesian Basin intake beds, Queensland. Final Report for the NHT Project #982713 Sustainable Groundwater Use in the GAB Intake Beds, Queensland. Bureau of Rural Science, Canberra & Natural Resources and Mines, Queensland Government, Brisbane, Australia.
34. Kelly, J.E. 1882. Well sinking, water storing and irrigation in the interior. Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney, 8 p.
35. Kitson, B., and J. McKay . 2006. Surveying Queensland 1839-1945: A Pictorial History. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Department of Natural Resources & Queensland Museum.
36. Kresic, N. 2010. Types and classifications of springs. In Groundwater Hydrology of Springs. Engineering, Theory, Management, and Sustainability, ed. N. Kresic, and Z. Stevanovic, 31-64. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier.
37. Krieg, G.W. 1989. Geology. In Natural History of Dalhousie Springs, ed. W. Zeidler and W.F. Ponder, 19-26. Adelaide, Australia: South Australian Museum.
38. Lamoreaux, P., B. Memon, and H. Idris . 1985. Groundwater development, Kharga Oases, Western Desert of Egypt: A long-term environmental concern. Environmental Geology and Water Sciences 7: 129-149.
39. Levin, N., R. Kark, and E. Galilee . 2010. Maps and the settlement of Southern Palestine, 1799-1848: An historical/GIS analysis. Journal of Historical Geography 36: 1-18.
40. Love, A.J., A.L. Herczeg, L. Sampson, R.G. Cresswell, and L.K. Fifield . 2000. Sources of chloride and implications for 36Cl dating of old groundwater, southwestern Great Artesian Basin, Australia. Water Resources Research 36: 1561-1574.
41. Mahara, Y., M.A. Habermehl, T. Hasegawa, K. Nakata, T.R. Ransley, T. Hatano, Y. Mizuochi, H. Kobayashi, A. Ninomiya, B.R. Senior, H. Yasuda, and T. Ohta . 2009. Groundwater dating by estimation of groundwater flow velocity and dissolved 4He accumulation rate calibrated by 36Cl in the Great Artesian Basin, Australia. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 287: 43-56.
42. Miller, T.G. 2004. Water sprites and ancestor spirits: Reading the architecture of Jinci. The Art Bulletin 86: 6-30.
43. Minckley, W.L. 1992. Three decades near Cuatro Cienegas, Mexico: Photographic documentation and a plea for area conservation. Limnology and Aquatic Biology of the Southwest 2: 89-118.
44. Mingaye, J.C. 1892. Analyses of some of the well, spring: Mineral, and artesian waters of New South Wales, and their probable value for irrigation and other purposes. Journal of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 26: 73-132.
45. Park, W.-B., and K. Ha . 2012. Spring water and water culture on Jeju Island. Ground Water 50: 159-165.
46. Percy, A. 1906. The drought antidote for the north-west: Or, the utilisation of the artesian resources of New South Wales. Sydney, Australia.
47. Pittman, E.F. 1914. The Great Australian Artesian Basin and the Source of Its Water. Sydney, Australia: Government Printer.
48. Potezny, V. 1989. The perentie and the women-A mythology from Dalhousie Springs. In Natural History of Dalhousie Springs, ed. W. Zeidler and W.F. Ponder, 5-6. Adelaide, Australia: South Australia Museum.
49. Powell, O., J. Silcock, and R. Fensham . 2015. Oases to oblivion: The rapid demise of springs in the south-eastern Great Artesian Basin, Australia. Ground Water 53: 171-178.
50. Prescott, J.R., and M.A. Habermehl . 2008. Luminescence dating of spring mound deposits in the southwestern Great Artesian Basin, northern South Australia. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 55: 167-181.
51. Rade, J. 1954. Geology and sub-surface waters of the area north of the Darling River between longitudes 145 and 149E. Journal of the Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 88: 24-32.
52. Rea, N., and Anmatyerr Water Project Team. 2008. Provision for Cultural Values in Water Management: The Anmatyerr Story. Canberra, Australia: Land & Water Australia.
53. Silcock, J.L., A.J. Healy, and R.J. Fensham . 2014. Lost in time and space: Re-assessment of conservation status in an arid-zone flora through targeted field survey. Australian Journal of Botany 62: 674-688.
54. Smerdon, B.D., T.R. Ransley, B.M. Radke, and J.R. Kellett . 2012. Water resource assessment for the Great Artesian Basin. A Report to the Australian Government from the CSIRO Great Artesian Basin Water Resource Assessment, CSIRO.
55. Smith, J.R., R. Giegengacka, and H.P. Schwarcz . 2004. Constraints on Pleistocene pluvial climates through stable-isotope analysis of fossil-spring tufas and associated gastropods, Kharga Oasis, Egypt. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 206: 157-175.
56. Springer, A.E., and L.E. Stevens . 2009. Spheres of discharge of springs. Hydrogeology Journal 17: 83-93.
57. Symmonds, R.S. 1912. Our Artesian Waters: Observations in the Laboratory and in the Field. Sydney, Australia: William Applegate Gullick, Government Printer.
58. Wilkinson, C.S. 1881. Notes on the occurrence of artesian wells in the Albert district, NSW. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 6: 155-157.
59. Wilson, G., A. Knight, and L. Liddle . 2004. Increasing the numbers of wildlife preferred by Aboriginal communities in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands, Australia. Game & Wildlife Science 21: 687-695.