Use of major and selected trace elements to describe mixing processes in a water reservoir |
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Authors: | Nathalie Gassama Constantin Cocirta Haino Uwe Kasper |
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Institution: | 1. Université François-Rabelais – Tours, CNRS/INSU, université d’Orléans, UMR 6113 ISTO (institut des sciences de la terre d’Orléans), 37200 Tours, France;2. Geochemisches Labor, Institut für Geologie und Mineralogie, Universität Köln, Köln, Germany |
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Abstract: | Data on temperature, major constituents and some trace elements, measured in the dissolved and particulate phases, were used to identify the hydrodynamics of a reservoir (the Bicaz reservoir, Romania). Results revealed that the reservoir experiences two thermal stratifications per year (summer and winter). However, the summer stratification is delayed by the high river inflow of June–July. Two layers were identified, a surface and a deep layer, whose location and impact vary with time. The surface layer originates from the river inflow (intrusion layer) and the deep current is produced by the outflow (velocity current). According to season, the river inflow either supplies the deep current or remains recordable up to the dam. Consequently, the structure of the water column, and thus the biogeochemical processes within it, are governed both by thermal stratification and by these layers. |
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Keywords: | Reservoir Major and trace elements Stratification Layers |
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