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Impact of climate changes during the last 5 million years on groundwater in basement aquifers

Luc Aquilina
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Antoine Armandine Les Landes
Philippe Davy
Thierry Labasque
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Clément Roques
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Eliot Chatton
Olivier Bour
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Mahmoud Khaska

Résumé

Climate change is thought to have major effects on groundwater resources. There is however a limited knowledge of the impacts of past climate changes such as warm or glacial periods on groundwater although marine or glacial fluids may have circulated in basements during these periods. Geochemical investigations of groundwater at shallow depth (80–400 m) in the Armorican basement (western France) revealed three major phases of evolution: (1) Mio-Pliocene transgressions led to marine water introduction in the whole rock porosity through density and then diffusion processes, (2) intensive and rapid recharge after the glacial maximum down to several hundred meters depths, (3) a present-day regime of groundwater circulation limited to shallow depth. This work identifies important constraints regarding the mechanisms responsible for both marine and glacial fluid migrations and their preservation within a basement. It defines the first clear time scales of these processes and thus provides a unique case for understanding the effects of climate changes on hydrogeology in basements. It reveals that glacial water is supplied in significant amounts to deep aquifers even in permafrosted zones. It also emphasizes the vulnerability of modern groundwater hydrosystems to climate change as groundwater active aquifers is restricted to shallow depths.

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Hydrologie Chimie
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insu-01203447 , version 1 (05-12-2016)

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Luc Aquilina, Virginie Vergnaud-Ayraud, Antoine Armandine Les Landes, Hélène Pauwels, Philippe Davy, et al.. Impact of climate changes during the last 5 million years on groundwater in basement aquifers. Scientific Reports, 2015, 5 (1), pp.14132. ⟨10.1038/srep14132⟩. ⟨insu-01203447⟩
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