About 50% of the territory of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano GeoPark consists of carbonate aquifers which correspond to the mountainous areas in the park (e. g. M.ti Alburni, M.te Cervati, M.te Bulgheria etc.). The rocks of these carbonate aquifers are mainly dolomites (Triassic-Liassic) and limestones (Jurassic). The abundance of groundwater resources in these aquifers is due to many factors: high permeability, the high altitudes that the mountains reach (with its important weather contribution), the absence of significant impermeable layers and the many tectonic-karst depressions. All this means a) that effective infiltration is significant and b) that it is not split into several groundwater bodies distributed at different heights a.s.l. but combines to feed basal ground water resources. The groundwater of these carbonate karst aquifers are therefore the main waters supplied for the populations of Cilento region and strategic water-resources to socio-economic and environmental development for the GeoPark.
Hydrogeological features of Geopark / Allocca, Vincenzo; Celico, PIETRO BRUNO; Corniello, Alfonso; DE VITA, Pantaleone; Ducci, Daniela; Esposito, L.; Fabbrocino, Silvia; Fiorillo, F.. - (2013), pp. 51-79.
Hydrogeological features of Geopark
ALLOCCA, VINCENZO;CELICO, PIETRO BRUNO;CORNIELLO, ALFONSO;DE VITA, PANTALEONE;DUCCI, DANIELA;FABBROCINO, SILVIA;
2013
Abstract
About 50% of the territory of the Cilento and Vallo di Diano GeoPark consists of carbonate aquifers which correspond to the mountainous areas in the park (e. g. M.ti Alburni, M.te Cervati, M.te Bulgheria etc.). The rocks of these carbonate aquifers are mainly dolomites (Triassic-Liassic) and limestones (Jurassic). The abundance of groundwater resources in these aquifers is due to many factors: high permeability, the high altitudes that the mountains reach (with its important weather contribution), the absence of significant impermeable layers and the many tectonic-karst depressions. All this means a) that effective infiltration is significant and b) that it is not split into several groundwater bodies distributed at different heights a.s.l. but combines to feed basal ground water resources. The groundwater of these carbonate karst aquifers are therefore the main waters supplied for the populations of Cilento region and strategic water-resources to socio-economic and environmental development for the GeoPark.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
