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Title: Effect of alteration zones on water quality: A case study from Biga Peninsula, Turkey
Authors: Baba, Alper
Gündüz, Orhan
Keywords: Water quality
Chemical alteration
Geochemical analysis
Water pollutants
Ozone depletion
Biga Peninsula
Publisher: Springer Verlag
Source: Baba, A., and Gündüz, O. (2010). Effect of alteration zones on water quality: A case study from biga peninsula, Turkey. Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, 58(3), 499-513. doi:10.1007/s00244-009-9406-8
Abstract: Widespread and intense zones of silicified, propylitic, and argillic alteration can be found in the Çan volcanics of Biga Peninsula, northwest Turkey. Most of the springs in the study area surface out from the boundary between fractured aquifer (silicified zone) and impervious boundary (argillic zone). This study focuses on two such springs in KirazlI area (KirazlI and Balaban springs) with a distinct quality pattern. Accordingly, field parameters (temperature, pH, and electrical conductivity), major anion and cation (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, chloride, bicarbonate, and sulfate), heavy metals (aluminum, arsenic, barium, chromium, cobalt, cupper, iron, lithium, manganese, nickel, lead, and zinc), and isotopes (oxygen-18, deuterium, and tritium) were determined in water samples taken from these springs during 2005 through 2007. The chemical analyses showed that aluminum concentrations were found to be two orders of magnitude greater in KirazlI waters (mean value 13813.25 μg/L). The levels of this element exceeded the maximum allowable limits given in national and international standards for drinking-water quality. In addition, Balaban and KirazlI springs are >55 years old according to their tritium levels; KirazlI spring is older than Balaban spring. KirazlI spring is also more enriched than Balaban spring based in oxygen-18 and deuterium values. Furthermore, KirazlI spring water has been in contact with altered rocks longer than Balaban spring water, according to its relatively high chloride and electrical conductivity values.
URI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s00244-009-9406-8
http://hdl.handle.net/11147/2747
ISSN: 0090-4341
0090-4341
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