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Soil Survey of Kankakee County, Illinois: U
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Guide to the Geology of Kankakee River Stare Park Area
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Electromagnetic terrain conductivity
W. Frankie (1997)
Guide to the geology of the Kankakee River State Park area, Kankakee County, Illinois / Illinois State geological Survey / Fieldtrip Guidebook No. 1997 C
Karst aquifers supply a significant fraction of the world's drinking water. These types of aquifers are also highly susceptible to pollution from the surface with recharge usually occurring through fractures and solution openings at the bedrock surface. Thickness of the protective soil cover, macropores and openings within the soil cover, and the nature of the weathered bedrock surface all influence infiltration. Recharge openings at the bedrock surface, however, are often covered by unconsolidated sediments, resulting in the inadvertent placement of landfills, unregulated dump sites, tailing piles, waste lagoons and septic systems over recharge zones. In these settings surface geophysical surveys, calibrated by a few soil cores, could be employed to identify these recharge openings, and qualitatively assess the protection afforded by the soil cover. In a test of this hypothesis, geophysical measurements accurately predicted the thickness of unconsolidated deposits overlying karstic dolomite at a site about 100 km south of Chicago, Illinois. Zones of elevated electrical conductivity and high ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) attenuation within the sediments coincided with subcropping solutionally‐enlarged hydraulically active bedrock fractures. These fractures extend to over 12‐m depth, as shown by 2‐D inverted resistivity sections and soil coring. Anomalous electromagnetic (EM) conductivity and GPR response may be due to higher soil moisture above these enlarged fractures. An epikarstal conduit at 2.5‐m depth was directly identified through a GPR survey. These results suggest that surface geophysical surveys are a viable tool for assessing the susceptibility of shallow karst aquifers to contamination.
Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) – Wiley
Published: Sep 1, 2001
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