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Geochemistry of Spring Water in the Liupan Mountain Area

LI Jing1,2,LI Ying1,LU Li-na2,SUN Feng-xia1,XIE Chao1,CUI Yue-ju1   

  1. 1.Key Laboratory of Earthquake Prediction, Institute of Earthquake Science, Beijing 100036, China;
    2.Colleage of Disaster Prevention, Sanhe 065201, China
  • Received:2016-05-17 Published:2019-08-14

Abstract: The origin and formation processes of the spring water from the fault zones in the Liupan Mountain and vicinity were discussed based on hydrochemical and isotopic data. We collected 10 water samples from springs and wells near the Liupan Mountain fault zones in November 2012 and July 2014. The attained hydrochemical data show that the TDS values ranged from 218 mg/L to 27508 mg/L, Values of δ18O and δD ranged from -12.02‰ to -8.47‰ and -88.5‰ to -61.33‰ respectively, which indicated that the spring waters in this area are mainly of meteoric origin and affected by the conditions of hydrological cycle and water-rock interaction. There are 10 hydrochemical types in the research areas based on the Schukalev hydrochemical classification method. Controlled by the aquifer lithology, the water samples in the sounthern area of Ningxia were mainly characterized by SO4-Na type, while that in the northwest region of Weihe river were mainly characterized by HCO3-Ca·Mg type. Ratios of ion concentrations between 2012 and 2014 indicated that Mg2+、 HCO-3♂、 F- had obvious variations, maybe influenced by season. Underground waters in sampling point SWT、SG have significant interference by rainfall and surface water, while those of the sampling point WM、 QC 、 DYZ etc. have less interference because of the relatively closed aquifer. Ion milliequivalent ratio of XKH spring show the biggest variation and an opposite trend to the seasonal effection, which may indicate that this spring had more changes in water-rock reaction and are more susceptible to the variations of the chemical information from the internal fault. Through the sample data collected in different seasons, the hydrogeochemical background of Liupan Mountain was determined and the local control and influence factors of fluid geochemistry were analyzed in this paper. The results provide the fluid geochemical characteristics and are in favor of seismic monitoring and forecasting.

Key words: Spring water, Ion concentration, H and O isotopes, Hydrochemistry, Liupan Mountain

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