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The karst aquifers in the San Franciscan depression belong to the sandstone aquifer and subjected to intense fresh water pumping. The Corrente River provides nearly 30 % of the São Francisco River’s water flow. The main objective of the present paper was to define sources and distribution of dissolved elements and to describe the geochemical processes that govern their mobility within the Urucuia Aquifer. Water samples are classified into three groups, depending on the dominant weathering process. When carbonate dissolution dominates waters are of bicarbonate–calcium-type, whereas, when the atmospheric precipitation signal is present, the samples in siliciclastic terrain are mostly of Cl−–Na+ type. Ground waters reflect bicarbonate—mixed-type, with the highest dissolved concentrations. In contrast to major elements, trace elements, including rare earth elements (REEs), show seasonal behavior: their concentrations increase in the beginning of the wet season, due to re-mobilization and release into the solution of adsorbed elements from the system and the atmospheric dust. The total dissolved REE concentration (800–7500 ng L−1) is one order of magnitude more concentrated in karst than in siliciclastic rocks.
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Silva-Filho, E.V., Lecomte, K.L., Bicalho, C.C. (2017). Hydrochemical Heterogeneity in Karst Tributaries on Siliciclastic Boundaries: Corrente River, Bahia—Brazil. In: Renard, P., Bertrand, C. (eds) EuroKarst 2016, Neuchâtel. Advances in Karst Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45465-8_33
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