A conceptual hydrogeological model of ophiolitic aquifers (serpentinised peridotite): The test example of Mt. Prinzera (Northern Italy)

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1058-1073

  Segadelli, Stefano ^a   Vescovi, Paolo ^a   Ogata, Kei ^a   Chelli, Alessandro ^a   Zanini, Andrea ^a   Boschetti, Tiziano ^a   Petrella, Emma ^a   Toscani, Lorenzo ^a   Gargini, Alessandro ^b   Celico, Fulvio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

conceptual model; Italy; northern Apennine; perched groundwater; peridotite aquifer

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HYDROGEOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; SURVEYS;

CONCEPTUAL MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; HYDROGEOLOGICAL MODELS; ITALY; NORTHERN APENNINE; NORTHERN APENNINES; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL SURVEYS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

AQUIFER; COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; PERMEABILITY; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; SPRING WATER;

APENNINES; EMILIA-ROMAGNA; ITALY; MOUNT PRINZERA; PARMA [EMILIA-ROMAGNA];

EID: 84992314836     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.11090     Document Type: Article

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