Natural arsenic in Triassic rocks: A source of drinking-water contamination in Bavaria, Germany |
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Authors: | Gerold Heinrichs Peter Udluft |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute of Hydrology, GSF-National Research Center for Environment and Health, Ingolstaedter Landstr. 1, D-85764 Neuherberg, Germany, DE;(2) Institute of Geology, University of Wuerzburg, Pleicherwall 1, D-97070 Wuerzburg, Germany, DE |
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Abstract: | The aquifer system of the Upper Triassic Keuper Sandstone, an important source of drinking water in northern Bavaria, is affected by elevated arsenic concentrations. Within the study area of 8000 km2, no evidence exists for any artificial source of arsenic. Data from about 500 deep water wells show that in approximately 160 wells arsenic concentrations are 10–150 μg/L. The regional distribution of arsenic in the groundwater shows that elevated arsenic concentrations are probably related to specific lithofacies of the aquifers that contain more sediments of terrestrial origin. Geochemical measurements on samples from four selected well cores show that arsenic has accumulated in the rocks. This indigenous arsenic is the source of arsenic in the groundwater of certain facies of the middle unit of the Keuper Sandstone. Received, June 1998 / Revised, January 1999, May 1999 / Accepted, June 1999 |
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Keywords: | groundwater development hydrochemistry sedimentary rocks arsenic contamination Germany |
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