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Characteristics of an open karst water system in Shandong Province, China

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Karst water is one of the most important water sources for Shandong Province in China, whose water is primarily stored in open karst water systems that have remarkable material exchanges between the water in the system and the external environment. In this study, the Pingyi–Feixian area is selected as a typical open karst water system, and the characteristics of the permeability of the carbonate rocks, the water level, geochemistry, and D and 18O isotopes are discussed. The primary innovative conclusions are as follows: (1) there exist three types of hydrogeological boundaries; (2) the karst water system is characterized by a double-zone recharge, where the exposed areas of carbonate rocks and intrusive metamorphic rocks are direct recharge areas and indirect recharge areas, respectively; (3) precipitation infiltration and river seepage are the two sources of recharge; and (4) carbonate strata of the Middle Cambrian to the Middle Ordovician form the primary karst water reservoirs, and most of the faults in the area have high permeability.

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Acknowledgements

This work was financed from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 41502253) and the National Key Research and Development Project (No. 2017YFC0406106). The authors would like to give special thanks to the Linyi Bureau of Land and Resources, Shandong Province, China, for providing data on water levels, evaporation and surface.

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  1. Shandong Institute of Geological Survey, Jinan, 250013, Shandong, China

    Chunhua Liu

  2. Institute of Hydrogeology and Environmental Geology, CAGS, Shijiazhuang, 050061, Hebei, China

    Guanghui Zhang

  3. No.1 Institute of Geology and Mineral Resource Exploration of Shandong Province, Jinan, 250100, Shandong, China

    Wei Wang

  4. Shandong Engineering Laboratory for High-Grade Fe Ores Exploration and Exploitation, Jinan, 250100, Shandong, China

    Wei Wang

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Liu, C., Zhang, G. & Wang, W. Characteristics of an open karst water system in Shandong Province, China. Environ Earth Sci 80, 147 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-021-09465-1

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