Hydrogeochemistry of the Meade thrust allochthon, southeastern Idaho, U.S.A., and its relevance to stratigraphic and structural groundwater flow control

Mayo, Alan L.; Muller, Anthony B.; Ralston, Dale R.

doi:10.1016/0022-1694(85)90089-7

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“…In addition to our sampling, historical compositions for seven selected groundwater wells (to improve east to west coverage) extracted from the Idaho Department of Water Resources online water quality data base (https://maps.idwr.idaho.gov/map/edms) are included in Table . Repeated sampling for major anions, cations, temperature, and pH characterization conducted over a period of 8 years (results not shown) as well as observations of others show that the composition of these waters have been chemically consistent over time …”

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“…Type I water is similar to the deeper aquifer described by Mayo and others and has had only minimal interactions with the overlying BVF basalt . Maskel and others report 87 Sr/ 86 Sr values of 0.70851 for waters from three Type I features .…”

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“…The Soda Springs site is composed of many CO 2 springs, leaking wells, and associated travertine deposits that are distributed throughout an approximately 65‐km surface expression of the leaking CO 2 system. The source of the CO 2 at the site has been suggested to be the dissolution of Paleozoic marine carbonates and marine shale by deeply derived acidic geothermal fluids …”

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“…The source of the CO 2 at the site has been suggested to be the dissolution of Paleozoic marine carbonates and marine shale by deeply derived acidic geothermal fluids. [50][51][52]54,55…”

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The use of environmental tracers to characterize a leaky CO₂ CCS natural analogue site, Soda Springs, Idaho, USA

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Large‐scale global adoption of carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a means of minimizing atmospheric CO2 emissions requires an unprecedented effort to store gigatons of anthropogenic emissions in the earth's subsurface. Critical to the adoption and ultimate success of CCS is the protection of valuable water resources that may be impacted by leaking CO2 from CCS operations. Therefore, appropriate technical tools and societal controls will need to be developed and evaluated to maximize the atmospheric benefits of CCS while limiting potential deleterious effects of its implementation. Here, we utilize a naturally leaking CO2 system located at Soda Springs, Idaho, USA, as an analogue for industrial‐scale CCS deployment. This site is particularly relevant and useful for studying the consequences of CCS because it allows the examination of geologic systems at temporal and spatial scales not accessible by laboratory and field experiments. The Soda Springs system is an ideal CCS natural analogue site with the source of CO2 occurring at depths and temperatures expected for large‐scale CCS systems. Soda Springs also provides long‐term examples of at least three potential failure modes for CCS systems, including direct migration of CO2 charged brine to the surface via faulting or wells, upward movement of CO2 from the injection‐horizon into over lying shallow aquifers, and the displacement of reservoir brine into shallower aquifers. These failure mechanisms were differentiated and characterized utilizing variations in water chemistry including rare earth elements providing a framework for delineating the movement of CO2‐influenced fluids migrating from deep CCS reservoirs into overlying aquifers. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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confidence: 99%

“…The source of the CO 2 at the site has been suggested to be the dissolution of Paleozoic marine carbonates and marine shale by deeply derived acidic geothermal fluids. [50][51][52]54,55…”

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“…Although instructive, these studies have limited applicability to groundwater flow in stratified mountainous terrain, because many are based on the limitations of computer simulations, on data collected only at or near the land surface, and on patterns of deep phreatic flow that are largely inferred. Most stratified mountainous systems consist of numerous stratigraphic and structural features that locally and regionally affect groundwater flow patterns (Allen and Michel, 1998;Janes, 1998;Huntoon, 1981;Mayo et al, 1985;Mayer and Sharp, 1998). In this investigation, we have used geological, physical, chemical, and isotopic data to evaluate interactions between near-surface and 300-700-mdeep groundwater systems in gently dipping stratified bedrock that underlies a 6500 km 2 mountainous region in Utah, USA (Fig.…”

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Active and inactive groundwater flow systems: Evidence from a stratified, mountainous terrain

Mayo

Morris

Peltier

et al. 2003

Geo. Society Am. Bull.

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We present a new conceptual model of groundwater flow that describes active and inactive groundwater flow regimes. The model is based on an analysis of interactions between surface water and shallow and deep groundwater in the 240-km-long Wasatch Range and Book Cliffs, Utah, USA. Active zone groundwater flow paths are continuous, responsive to annual recharge and climatic variability, and have groundwater resident times ''ages'' that become progressively older from recharge to discharge area. Active zone groundwater systems discharge at thousands of springs that issue from the 700؉-m-thick, gently dipping, clastic bedrock formations. Springs waters contain appreciable 3 H and anthropogenic 14 C.In contrast, inactive zone groundwater has extremely limited or no communication † E-mail: alanmayo@byu.edu. with annual recharge and has groundwater mean residence times that do not progressively lengthen along the flow path. Groundwater in the inactive zone may be partitioned, occur as discrete bodies, and may occur in hydraulically isolated regions that do not have hydraulic communication with each other. Inactive zone groundwater is encountered in-mines (coal-mines 300-700 m below ground surface) where groundwater discharge rates decline rapidly and the waters have ␦ 2 H and ␦ 18 O compositions that are distinguishable from near surface groundwater. In general, deep waters have no 3 H and have mean 14 C residence times of 500 to 20,000 yr (45.9 to 4.9 pmc). Chemical evolution modeling, porosity-permeability core plug analysis, and inmine hydrographs also indicate hydraulic partitioning.

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Remediation scenarios for selenium contamination, Blackfoot watershed, southeast Idaho, USA

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2013

Hydrogeol J

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Hydrogeochemistry of the Meade thrust allochthon, southeastern Idaho, U.S.A., and its relevance to stratigraphic and structural groundwater flow control

Cited by 9 publications

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The use of environmental tracers to characterize a leaky CO₂ CCS natural analogue site, Soda Springs, Idaho, USA

The use of environmental tracers to characterize a leaky CO₂ CCS natural analogue site, Soda Springs, Idaho, USA

Active and inactive groundwater flow systems: Evidence from a stratified, mountainous terrain

Remediation scenarios for selenium contamination, Blackfoot watershed, southeast Idaho, USA

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Hydrogeochemistry of the Meade thrust allochthon, southeastern Idaho, U.S.A., and its relevance to stratigraphic and structural groundwater flow control

Cited by 9 publications

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The use of environmental tracers to characterize a leaky CO2 CCS natural analogue site, Soda Springs, Idaho, USA

The use of environmental tracers to characterize a leaky CO2 CCS natural analogue site, Soda Springs, Idaho, USA

Active and inactive groundwater flow systems: Evidence from a stratified, mountainous terrain

Remediation scenarios for selenium contamination, Blackfoot watershed, southeast Idaho, USA

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The use of environmental tracers to characterize a leaky CO₂ CCS natural analogue site, Soda Springs, Idaho, USA

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