Origin,distribution, and evolution of salt-fresh groundwater in North Jiangsu Basin,China |
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| Authors: | Zhou Hongchun |
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| Institution: | (1) Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Maqun, Naking, China |
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| Abstract: | Connate saltwaters are contained within the upper Pleistocene and overlying sediments. The high salinity of phreatic water
and subsoil has significant effects on the development of industry and agriculture in the area. This articie is a report on
conditions of the salt-fresh ground-water in the North Jiangsu Basin (NJB), China. Connate saltwaters in the western part
and within old dunes in the eastern part of the area have been flushed out by infiltrating meteoric water, since regression
happened about 1,000 years ago. A broad transition zone of saltwater-freshwater exists due to repeatedly eustatic sea-level
fluctuation during the Quaternary period, through analyzing relationships between marine beds and the distribution of salt-fresh
groundwater. In the coastal plain, the distribution of salt-fresh water is quite complex. There are four types of vertical
distribution represented by chloride and/or Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) profiles: (1) salt-fresh water inversion, (2) salt-brackish
water inversion, (3) salt-fresh-brackish water superimposition, and (4) salt-fresh-salt-fresh water superimposition.
Groundwater in the middle-layered aquifer system is replenished in some places in the west, and flows slowly eastward. Chemical
characters of water result from halite dissolution and incongruent dissolution of some aluminosilicate minerals, ion exchange
and adsorption, mixture of salt-fresh water, and others. Hydrochemical types evolve from HCO3 type to HCO3 Cl type, lacking the sulfate type due to the mixture of salt and freshwater. The Chebotarev hydrochemical evolution sequence
is, therefore, not relevant. |
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