Deep water circulation at the northern Pyrenean thrust: Implication of high temperature water-rock interaction process on the mineralization of major spring water in an overthrust area

Chemical Geology

Volumn 419, Issue , 2015, Pages 114-131

  Khaska, Mahmoud ^a,b   Le Gal La Salle, Corinne ^a,b   Videau, Girard ^c   Flinois, Jean Sébastien ^d   Frape, Shaun ^e   Verdoux, Patrick ^a   Arnold, Maurice ^f   Aumaître, Georges ^f   Bourlès, Didier L ^f   Keddadouche, Karim ^f  

^a Universite de Nimes   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^c AREVA NP   (France)

^d ANDRA   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^f NONE

Author keywords

87Sr 86Sr experimental model; Geochemistry; Mechanism of deep water circulation; Pyrenean overthrust; Radioactive Chloride isotopes; Salinization process

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; BINARY ALLOYS; BUILDINGS; CLAY DEPOSITS; DEPOSITS; GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPES; MAGNESIUM ALLOYS; MINERALOGY; MOLAR RATIO; POTASSIUM ALLOYS; POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TRACE ELEMENTS;

DEEP WATER; EXPERIMENTAL MODELING; GEOCHEMICAL FINGERPRINTS; HIGH TEMPERATURE CONDITION; HYDROGEOCHEMICAL EVOLUTION; HYDROGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; OVERTHRUST; SALINIZATION PROCESS;

SALINE WATER;

AQUIFER; HYDROGEOCHEMISTRY; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MINERALIZATION; SALINIZATION; SPRING WATER; STRONTIUM ISOTOPE; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

PYRENEES;

EID: 84946401175     PISSN: 00092541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2015.10.028     Document Type: Article

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