Objective
To improve our understanding of the evolution of groundwaters in coastal areas during times of lowered sea levels in the late Pleistocene and Holocene along a NE-SW European traverse from Estonia to the Canary Islands.
Assess the response of representative coastal aquifers to human influence and climatic change as a basis for the improved groundwater management of coastal regions of Europe.
The project will focus on:
Aquifers as archives of former climatic and environmental conditions. To investigate the extent
to which groundwater retains the signature of past recharge events. Such evidence can be used
as additional proxy data on climatic change, notably direct evidence of former wet episodes,
which can be compared and checked with other marine or continental indicators
(sediment cores, ice cores for example). The time scale of interest for the groundwater archive
is up to 50,000 years with a potential resolution of measurement using radiocarbon of +/- 100
years, although hydrogeological and geochemical factors will affect this resolution. A wide range
of isotopic and geochemical indicators will be applied to aquifers in the different countries
The extent of freshening of coastal saline aquifers. To investigate the renewal of saline aquifers
that occurred during freshwater advance during sea level lowering, the rate of these processes
during the past 50,000 years and their impact at the present day. The focus will be on present
coastlines where the effects are more marked and where re-advance of the sea may even have
trapped undetected freshwater in the near and offshore zones.
The extent of palaeowater advance into sedimentary basins. Lowered sea levels also had an effect
inland by encouraging deeper circulation of groundwater, controlled by more distant outlets.
Present saline/fresh water interfaces at depth in many inland areas are therefore likely to be the
result of former hydrological conditions unrelated to present day hydraulic
heads.
The interface between modern polluted and pre-industrial groundwater resources. To investigate
the extent to which high quality palaeowaters are being impacted by pollution.
Freshwater storage. Water supply in coastal regions is often difficult to manage due to the
combined effects of seasonal demand and sea-water intrusion. Cyclic storage and recovery of
freshwater in deep saline aquifers.The design of such schemes depends on an understanding
of the hydraulic and geochemical conditions in such aquifers, including their former evolution.
Modelling of the water quality changes over the past 50,000 years. To use the data from the
various European countries to determine at what rates geochemical processes have operated in
freshening (or salinising) aquifer systems in relation to past scenarios of hydraulic head change.
To project these to future change, accelerated by climate change and human activity
over the range of climatic conditions in the European Community.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences hydrology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
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United Kingdom
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