Groundwater Base Level Changes and Adjoining Hydrological Systems /
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2010. |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction.-The main types of groundwater base-levels
- Factors controlling base- level elevation changes
- General
- Global, regional and local climate changes
- Tectonic movements
- Isostatic and glacio- isostatic movements
- Land subsidence through compaction and dewatering
- Groundwater cones of depression caused by natural process of evapotranspiration
- Groundwater cones of depression caused by groundwater exploitation
- Methods and techniques to define base-level elevation and to measure and assess
- The effect of their variation on adjoining groundwater systems
- Base level elevation
- Current ground level measurements
- Current sea and lake level measurements
- Paleo- and historic shorelines
- Methods to determine groundwater systems' response to base- level changes
- Current field measurements
- Indirect estimation
- Hydrological simulations
- Capturing of groundwater basins and shifts of divides
- General
- Climate changes
- Tectonically induced base-level elevation changes
- Karst systems
- Stream piracy by groundwater sapping
- Groundwater exploitation
- Salinity, salination, and freshening of the different base-levels and their adjoining groundwater systems
- General
- The global marine base-level
- Base- level salinity
- Adjoining groundwater systems salinity
- Continental endorheic base-levels, distant from the sea
- Base-level salinity
- Adjoining groundwater systems salinity
- Flow- through, intermediate, base-levels
- Base-level salinity.-Adjoining groundwater systems salinity
- Salinity of endorheic base-levels below sea level, close to the sea
- Freshening of coastal aquifers
- Paleo- and current marine base-levels
- General
- The Neogene marine Mediterranean base-level
- The Black Sea Neogene to Holocene base-levels.-Quaternary and Holocene marine base-levels
- Current marine base-levels
- Characteristics of current continental endorheic base-levels
- Current continental base-levels above sea level
- General
- Lake Chad Basin
- The Great Salt Lake Basin
- The Andean Altiplano Basin
- The Aral Sea Basin
- The Mono Lake Basin, California
- The Main Ethiopian Rift Basin
- Current continental base-levels below sea level and distant from the sea
- General
- The Great Artesian Basin and Lake Eyre Basin, Australia
- The Death Valley Basin
- Central Asia closed endorheic basins
- The Caspian Sea –Kara Bogaz Gol Basin
- Current continental base-levels below sea level, located close to the sea
- General
- The Dead Sea Rift endorheic base-level
- General
- Structure and tectonics
- The hydrological history of the Dead Sea Rift endorheic base-level
- Current groundwater flow regime
- Water salinities of the Dead Sea Rift base-levels and their adjoining groundwater systems
- The response of the groundwater systems to the Dead Sea base-level changes
- The Afar Depression-Lake Asal
- The Qattara Depression, Egypt
- The Salton Trough, USA
- The Chotts of Tunisia and Algeria
- The Sabkhat Ghuzayil and the Sirte Basin, Libya
- The Lago Enriquillo, Dominican Republic
- The Argentine Salinas close to the Atlantic coast
- Sebkha Paki Tah Depression, Morocco
- Salination mechanism
- Anowledgements
- Subject Index.