OLD MARINE WATER IN FUERTEVENTURA ISLAND DEEP FORMATIONS
OLD MARINE WATER IN FUERTEVENTURA ISLAND DEEP FORMATIONS
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富特文图拉岛深层的古老海水
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2002
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R. Rosas
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作者:
C. Herrera;E. Custodio;Gran Capità;R. Rosas
During the SWIM meeting in Miedzyzdroje, Bolin Island, Poland, first results on the origin of saline groundwater in volcanic Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, Spain, were presented. Now they are completed with the final results of the doctoral thesis of the first author (Herrera, 2001), under the tuition of the second one. The study considers the central part of the island, where there are the maximum elevations (ca.800 m) and the submarine formations and intrusive rocks underlying the volcanic edifices crop out. Groundwater presents high dissolved solids content and the concentration increases downwards. An Upper Unit contains groundwater of 2.5 to 5.5 mS cm -1 and 18 to 25o C, of the sodium-chloride type, with moderate alkalinity, sulphate and silica contents, and often with quite high nitrate contents of anthropic origin. A Lower Unit yield groundwater of 5.5 to 24.0 mS cm -1 and 25 to 30oC, of the sodium chloride-sulphate type, high in dissolved silica and nitrate free. The high salinity of the Upper formation is due mostly to the climatic aridy of the island, in which average rainfall varies between 100 a 200 mma -1 . Chemical composition of groundwater from the Upper Unit can be easily explained by rainfall water evaporation with a secondary mineral contribution from water-rock interaction, which mostly results in a sodium increase due to plagioclase weathering. However, to explain the dissolved solids contents of Lower Unit other contributions have to be considered. Considering the Cl/Br ratio, the water isotope composition, the most characteristic ion ratios and chemical modelling, there is a marine water component, which is assumed to be relict seawater trapped in the intrusive rock bodies. It penetrated during stages in which the island was at a lower elevation, possibly before the last Quaternary volcanic eruptions. The very small bulk permeability of these intrusive rocks, in spite of local heterogeneities that allow some boreholes to yield significant water flows, may explain that some marine water is still not flushed, even above sea level. The high sulphate content of these waters is due to igneous sulphur dissolution, as shown by S isotope composition.