Published May 1989
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Report
Quito Valley: General behaviour and problems of natural aquifer recharge
Creators
- 1. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
- 2. Institut Francais de Recherche Scientifique pour le Developpement en Cooperation, Quito (Ecuador)
- 3. Instituto Ecuatoriano de Recursos Hidraulicos, Quito (Ecuador)
Description
The environmental isotopic study of the Quito aquifer system, performed to complement the conventional hydrogeological survey, led us to the identification of two different recharge processes: (1) In the north, the water circulation is of ''hypodermic'' type on the flank of the volcano Pichincha and the recharge of the aquifer is mainly due to direct infiltration of rainwater and surface water; (2) In the south, the infiltration is more effective in the highest part of the mountain and the aquifer recharge derives from deep groundwater circulation. (author). 5 refs, 6 figs, 2 tabs
Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (Spanish)
- Cubeta de Quito: Comportamiento general y problematica de la recarga natural del acuifero
Publishing Information
- Imprint Title
- Isotope hydrology investigations in Latin America
- Imprint Pagination
- 482 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 305-317.
- Report number
- IAEA-TECDOC--502
Conference
- Title
- Regional seminar for Latin America on the use of isotope techniques in hydrology.
- Dates
- 28 Sep - 2 Oct 1987.
- Place
- Salazar (Mexico).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 21031102
- Subject category
- S58: GEOSCIENCES; S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- AQUIFERS; CARBON 14; DEUTERIUM; ECUADOR; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; GROUND WATER; ISOTOPE DATING; ISOTOPE RATIO; OXYGEN 18; RAIN WATER; TRITIUM; WATER INFLUX
- Descriptors DEC
- AGE ESTIMATION; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; CARBON ISOTOPES; DATA; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EVEN-EVEN NUCLEI; HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS; HYDROGEN ISOTOPES; INFORMATION; ISOTOPES; LATIN AMERICA; LIGHT NUCLEI; NUCLEI; NUMERICAL DATA; ODD-EVEN NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; POLAR SOLVENTS; RADIOISOTOPES; SOLVENTS; SOUTH AMERICA; STABLE ISOTOPES; WATER; YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
Optional Information
- Notes
- Imprint:Estudios de hidrologia isotopica en America Latina.;Actas de un seminario regional para America Latina sobre el empleo de tecnicas isotopicas en hidrologia celebrado en el Centro de Investigaciones Nucleares de Salazar, Mexico, 28 de Septiembre a 2 de Octubre de 1987.