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5. Karst hydrogeology
Jiri Sima
Jiri Brudhans
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Karst investigation
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What is karst?
Modern definition (Klimchouk, Ford, Palmer, Dreydrodt, 2000; p. 46):
The karst system is an integrated mass-transfer
system in soluble rocks with a permeability
structure dominated by conduits dissolved from the
rock and organised to facilitate the circulation of
fluid.
Huntoon, 1995: KARST IS A SPECIFIC KIND OF
FLUID CIRCULATION SYSTEM CAPABLE OF
SELF-DEVELOPMENT AND SELF-
ORGANISATION
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What is a cave?
Karst caves are defined as solution cavities larger
than 5–16 mm in diameter.
Three opposed sets of general genetic hypotheses
('the classical hypotheses') have been presented for
such caves, arguing that the majority develop:
(1) in the vadose zone,
(2) in the phreatic zone, or
(3) proximate and parallel to a water table
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Karstification proces in carbonate rocks
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-imagine the soluble rock with
dense net of fractures
-fractures are enlarged by
flow (corrosion) and karst
conduits start to evolve
-as soon as first conduit reach
the discharge zone the water
table drop down in conduits
and its surrounding
-other conduits are reoriented
towards first conduit (changed
piezometric field)
=> dendritic pattern of flow
collecting majority of water is
developed
Is clear that there is great
difference between initial and
final flow field
Ground plan of karst conduits development
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Longitudinal cave/ conduit section is function of fracture density (joints,
bedding planes, faults...interconnected between recharge and discharge zone)
-main conduit will develop along the shortest possible route (if wide enough, etc.)
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-most of caves are developed along initially unimportant
fractures (fractured zones)
-commonly enlargement of initially very small fractures
(diameter of fractures is far below 1 mm)
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Cretaceous rocks
Palaeozoic
limestone
metamorphosed
carbonates
Area with some extend of karst porosity
(Vysoké Mýto Syncline, Ústí Syncline)
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-developed along bedding
planes BUT as visible from
ground plan the vertical
fractures were also very
important (direct segments of
cave passage)
-fractures are so small, that
can not be seen on the ceiling
of passages!!! (many of them in area
=>enlargement of very small
fractures with primary
diameter less than 1 mm
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Bartošova pec Cave, foto: Michal Novák
Primary fissured porosity ø less than 1 mm; by karstification enlarged to ø 1 m
now draining several km2!!!...originally 0,0000X l/s...now up to 100 l/s
...orders of magnitude
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-in NONkarst the porosity is related
only to lithology, tectonics,
weathering) and the flow MUST
follow it (and not change it)
Karst contra other
environments
-in KARST the predominant part of
water flows by SECONDARY
porosity (karst conduits) (Atkinson,
1971)
-primary porosity became unimportant
for regional flow
-recent flow paths are result of flow
net history (those fractures mostly
suitable placed between recharge and
discharge areas became into largest
conduits =>permeability rising in
orders of magnitude)
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Karst specifics
-extreme permeability of karst conduits
-dominance of turbulent flow in karst
conduits
-boreholes and even geophysics have very
limited possibility to capture the main paths
of water flow (conduits)
-environmental tracers, tracer tests and
study of springs can be very valuable
instead pumping tests
-the hydraulic gradient in karst aquifers is
higher than in other aquifers
-steep hydraulic gradient in karst does not
exclude the high permeability of such
environment!!!
(commonly WEAK relationship between
permeability and hydraulic gradient in karst
Is this
karst
or not?
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Karst conduits recently evolving on the side of main passage in
Cetacile Ponoruluj Cave (Rumania, Bihor, Munti Apuseni)
Apparently
turbulent flow
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Karst in metamorphosed carbonates
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Chýnov Karst (southern Bohemia)
-more than 90% of water infiltrates on gneiss, only 5-10% on limestone
-carbonate strip act as drainage
-relatively productive sources for water supply can be found on marbles in
crystalline regions
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sink of stream Pod Smrčníkem
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Non carbonate openings - caves
• Gypsum
• Halite
• Marlstone
• Sandstone (hard rocks with development of
opening along tectonic lines – groundwater
flow preferential pathways)
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Structures and environment –
example from “Turnov karst”
-in NE Bohemia (close to Turnov
town)
-marlstones of Jizera Fm (Czech
Cretaceous Basin)
-CaCO3 content 5 to 80%
-formed by aggressive water from
overlying Teplice Fm (no CaCO3
content – undersaturated to
calcite)
-many karst features (semi blind
valleys, sinkholes, sinks, caves,
springs)
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Cave and excavator
Open cast mine for pure quartz sand(stone) for glass-making
(without CaCO3) cemented by kaoline clay – circulating water
transported sand out of sandstone – creating cave
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Střeleč sand pit & cave
Geology
-pure quartz sandstones of Jizera
formation
-mined by means of explosives
with some weathered zones
Cave development caused by
human activity:
-about 80 l/s are pumped out from
bottom of the sand pit (lowering of
ground water level)
-flow velocity over 0,5 m/s
=> sand is carried away from the
weathered zones
Cave termination (15 m) Cave entrance main fractured zone
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The relationship between permeability and
hydraulic gradient is so obvious for
hydrogeologists...
...however this premise is NOT valid in many karst
areas
Why is it so?
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3,1%
1,1%
1,1%
1,0%
1,0%...hydraulic gradient
based on distance and
altitude difference between
sink and resurgence
in common fissured and
alluvial it mostly does not
exceed 0,6 promile
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0% 20% 0%
200 m
20 m
0,3% 4%
Rutice
Spring
503 m.asl
Chýnov Cave, longitudinal section (Krejča a kol.)
506 m.asl
1.9 m
paleo water table level
45 m
Hypothetic course of condiut and its
piezometric surface hydraulic
gradient
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Teplica Cave, Tisovec, Slovakia
WTL
WTL
waterfall
8m
paleo-
WTL
!!! steep hydraulic gradient is often
caused by shortcut (water falls)
between various cave levels
=>steep hydraulic gradient does NOT
mean low permeability of
environment!!!
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Karst environment
-epikarst
-vadose (unsaturated) zone
-phreatic (saturated) zone
-flow pattern and velocity, residence time
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Karst conduits:
occupy less than 1‰ of
aquifer volume
-extreme flow intensity
-relatively low volume
=> (tracer tests)
MRT: hours, days, max. weeks
!!! Boreholes can NOT reach main conduits... 1:1000
0-20%
80-100%
Remaining environment:
occupy over 99,9 % of aquifer
volume
-very low flow intensity
-relatively large volume
=> (environmental tracers)
MRT: months, years, decades
Epikarst:
-karstified topmost part of
unsaturated zone (subsurface
fracturing)
-very important (speleogenesis,
flow concentration, contaminant
transport, vulnerability, etc.)
MRT: days to years
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Karst conduits and regional flow
-flow pattern
-flow velocity
- Surface water and groundwater divide
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spring
catchment of particular
springs
proved
flow
line
(tracer
test)
Karst in Mendip (Great Britain) convergent flow pattern
(hydrological = hydrogeological water divide)
Springs have clearly defined catchments
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(Dinaric Karst)
-strong tendency to
polyfurcation
(more common than
convergent pattern)
-large rivers sinking in
the area, water from
sink flows to spring
which is up to 50 km
apart
-impossible to
delineate catchments
and to determine the
flow directions
without tracer tests
10 km
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river
Morava!
ČERLINKA
limestone shales (nonkarst overburden) Javoříčko karst
2 km
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velocity in conduits in
Czech Republic
80 m up to 9 km/day
0.001 up to 0.1 m/s
-very high velocity
-once the
contamination enters
the sink it appear in
hours or days in some
spring or water supply
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the largest sinks of stream
in CR up to 20 m3/s (Bílá voda)
karst conduit Amatérská Cave
transport of coarse gravel Foto: Audy, 2000
Foto: Zatloukal, 1996
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timbers float into Coiba Mare Cave (Rumania). More than 500 m far from entrance
=> example of extreme flow capability
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Groundwater development
Development of groundwater in karst aquifers
by wells
Do not try to drill into the main conduits (not
filtrated water, high variability in volume of
water in conduits
Consider water level in conduits or in spring
at the end of conduits as maximum depths
to groundwater level (drainage level)
Do not be afraid of karst aquifers – good for
development – basement araeas
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Vulnerability of karst areas
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„Groundwater vulnerability“ = natural sensitivity of groundwater
occurrence to contamination
Intrinsic vulnerability
-geological, hydrogeological
and hydrological properties
of environment
Specific vulnerability
- intrinsic vulnerability
+ properties and behaviour
of contaminant in
environment
Source vulnerability
-target is the source (spring,
borehole)...water supply
Resource vulnerability
-target (for contaminant) is
the water table (whole body
of groundwater)
Vulnerability mapping as a tool for landuse management
(Daly et al., 2002)
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•Groundwater occurrence
•Overall lithology
•Depth to groundwater table
•Epikarst
•Protective cover
•Infiltration conditions
•Karst network development
•Faktor O (overlying layers)
•Faktor C (flow concentration)
•Faktor K (karst network)
•Faktor P (precipitation)
Method GOD
Method EPIK
„European approach“
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Spring development
-mostly there is NO dilution of
pollutants content during
recharge events...
-strong increasing of bacteria
number in spring water after rain
events
-in karst areas the quality of
water can be good due to
impropriety sampling (is
necessary to sample also during
and after strong recharge
events... many pollutant flushed
into underground by
concentrated recharge
-during most of time, only diffuse
recharge is taking place
Q (m3/s)
HCO3- (mg/l)
bacteria
100
3400
Kullman, 1990
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Karst OR strongly heterogenous environment
= improbable to catch the most permeable zones by
boreholes....springs MUST be monitored also
-in heterogenous fracture environment ....geophysics
can help monitoring
boreholes
fractures
landfill harmful subst.
spring/
water supply
N
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Karst in Ethiopia
Karst areas in Ethiopia – limestone/marble
• Mekele and Afar
• Blue Nile gorge (Jemma),
• Eastern plateau (Harar- Bale -Sof Omar)
water supply for Kersa, Bedesa, Mechera –
Hakim spring – Harar Brewery,
• Marble in west (Dalati in Asossa area)
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Caves – caverns in volcanic rocks
The territory of the Wolayta region includes
many geological strata of volcanic origin.
Following the river valleys or getting in the
vicinity of the meeting point of different
geological strata, we can find little rock
shelter or little caves
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Karst areas (Seifu Kebede)
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SE Plateau –eastern part
Named 'THE GURSUM PEARL' at a meet of
the local Gursum Action Group, explored on
February 13-14 2009. Ethiopia's first cave
with a huge number of stalactical feutures -
speleothems. An active spring. It is one of
Africa's three best speleological finds. And,
according to the five experts first in, definitely
amongst the best they visited in the world. PHOTOGRAPH BY MARCO ADORNO
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Gursum cave „Perl“
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Pearl cave
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SE Plateau – western part
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Karst spring – Kunturur area
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Asfawossen
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Asfawossen
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Sof Omar cave – no stalactical features
(speleothems)
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Sof Omar – collaps of roof
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Karst investigation – future
challenge for hydrogeology • Stalactical features non stalactical features
(speleothems) in caves
• Extent and flow dynamics of karst systems
and aquifers
– Tracing tests
– Speleological investigation
• Method for investigation and well drilling
• Vulnerability assessment and resources
protection principles
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