Distinct stores and the routing of water in the deep critical zone of a snow-dominated volcanic catchment
Distinct stores and the routing of water in the deep critical zone of a snow-dominated volcanic catchment
复制标题
以积雪为主的火山流域深处关键区域的独特水源和水流路径
DOI:
--
复制
发表时间:
2019
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Alissa White
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Alissa White
Abstract. This study combines major ion and isotope chemistry, age tracers,
fracture density characterizations, and physical hydrology measurements to
understand how the structure of the critical zone (CZ) influences its
function, including water routing, storage, mean water residence times, and
hydrologic response. In a high elevation rhyolitic tuff catchment in the
Jemez River Basin Critical Zone Observatory (JRB-CZO) within the Valles
Caldera National Preserve (VCNP) of northern New Mexico, a periodic precipitation
pattern creates different hydrologic flow regimes during spring snowmelt,
summer monsoon rain, and fall storms. Hydrometric, geochemical, and isotopic
analyses of surface water and groundwater from distinct stores, most notably
shallow groundwater that is likely a perched aquifer in consolidated
collapse breccia and deeper groundwater in a fractured tuff aquifer system,
enabled us to untangle the interactions of these groundwater stores and
their contribution to streamflow across 1 complete water year (WY). Despite seasonal differences in groundwater response due to water
partitioning, major ion chemistry indicates that deep groundwater from the
highly fractured site is more representative of groundwater contributing to
streamflow across the entire water year. Additionally, the comparison of
streamflow and groundwater hydrographs indicates a hydraulic connection
between the fractured welded tuff aquifer system and streamflow, while the
shallow aquifer within the collapse breccia deposit does not show this same
connection. Furthermore, analysis of age tracers and oxygen ( δ18O ) and stable hydrogen ( δ2H ) isotopes of water
indicates that groundwater is a mix of modern and older waters recharged
from snowmelt, and downhole neutron probe surveys suggest that water moves
through the vadose zone both by vertical infiltration and subsurface lateral
flow, depending on the lithology. We find that in complex geologic terrain like
that of the JRB-CZO, differences in the CZ architecture of two hillslopes within
a headwater catchment control water stores and routing through the
subsurface and suggest that shallow groundwater does not contribute
significantly to streams, while deep fractured aquifer systems contribute
most to streamflow.
登录
查看更多内容
影响因子:
3.1
作者:
D. Healy;R. Rizzo;D. Cornwell;N. Farrell;Hannah Watkins;N. Timms;E. Gomez‐Rivas;Michael C. Smith-Michael-C.-Sm
通讯作者:
D. Healy;R. Rizzo;D. Cornwell;N. Farrell;Hannah Watkins;N. Timms;E. Gomez‐Rivas;Michael C. Smith-Michael-C.-Sm
影响因子:
18.3
作者:
Jasechko, Scott;Perrone, Debra;Kirchner, James W.
通讯作者:
Kirchner, James W.
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.1800141115
发表时间:
2018-02
期刊:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
影响因子:
--
作者:
D. Rempe;W. Dietrich
通讯作者:
D. Rempe;W. Dietrich
影响因子:
5
作者:
Hyojin Kim;J. Bishop;W. Dietrich;I. Fung
通讯作者:
Hyojin Kim;J. Bishop;W. Dietrich;I. Fung