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Geoscience ›› 2017, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (02): 415-420.

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High-fluorine Groundwater Formation in Longshoushan Piedmont in Zhangye Basin

WANG Wenxiang1(), HE Jin1,2, ZHANG Mengnan1, AN Yonghui1, LI Wenpeng3, WU Xi1, GONG Lei1, WANG Xiaoyan1   

  1. 1. Center for Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology Survey, China Geological Survey, Baoding,Hebei 071051, China
    2. College of Environment and Resources, Jilin University, Changchun, Jilin 130026,China
    3. China Institute of Geo-environment Monitoring, Beijing 100081,China
  • Received:2015-06-10 Revised:2016-05-24 Online:2017-04-10 Published:2017-04-25

Abstract:

Fluorine is one of essential elements of the human body, but excessive F can be harmful to human body. The formation mechanism of high fluorine groundwater has been a hot topic of hydrogeochemical research. The authors analyzed numerous groundwater level and quality data from 1∶50,000 hydrogeological survey in Zhangye Basin. By using hydrogeochemical and oxygen deuterium isotope methods, the authors discussed the formation mechanism of high-fluorine groundwater in Longshoushan piedmont in a high accuracy level. The results show that high-fluorine groundwater mainly origins from Longshoushan mountain fluorine-bearing rock. The high-fluorine surface water in Longshoushan mountain recharge into Quaternary aquifer in Zhangye Basin through seasonal floods and mixes with low-fluorine groundwater from upstream. Different recharge sources divided groundwater into three strips in Longshoushan piedmont.

Key words: Zhangye Basin, hydrogeological survey, high-fluoride groundwater, formation mechanism, leaching

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