Hydrogeochemical Processes Controlling the Water Chemistry of a Closed Saline Lake Located in Sahara Desert: Lake Qarun, Egypt

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• 作者：Mahmoud S. M. Abdel Wahed ; Essam A. Mohamed ; Mohamed I. El-Sayed…
• 关键词：Geochemical evolution ; Lake Qarun ; Fayoum Depression ; Evapoconcentration ; Geochemical modeling ; Sahara Desert
• 刊名：Aquatic Geochemistry
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：January 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：21
• 期：1
• 页码：31-57
• 全文大小：2,210 KB
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• 刊物类别：Earth and Environmental Science
• 刊物主题：Earth sciences
  Geochemistry
  Hydrogeology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-1421

文摘

We present here the first detailed hydrogeochemical study about Lake Qarun. It is a closed, saline, and alkaline lake located in the North African Sahara Desert. It has no outflow except by evaporation. This lake is the deepest area in the Fayoum Depression with elevation 43?m below sea level. In this area, Nile River is the main source of water and Lake Qarun acts as the main reservoir of all drainage waters. Along the flow path of water, the salinity of water increases with increasing proximity to Lake Qarun and the water chemistry has developed from Ca–Mg–HCO3 at head waters to Na–Cl–SO4 in low lands and in Lake Qarun. The main processes that control the water chemistry in the studied area are dissolution of soluble salts along with continuous evapoconcentration. The progressive evaporation of drainage water inflow has increased the concentrations of Na, Mg, Cl, and SO4 in Lake Qarun water, while Ca and HCO3 have been depleted through CaCO3 precipitation. This is confirmed by the application of Hardie and Eugster’s model parallel with a PHREEQC simulated evaporation model. Both models demonstrated that the evolution of lake water during evaporation should reach the final composition of “Na–Mg–SO4–Cl.-Oxygen isotope (δ18O) values of the studied water samples showed a strong positive correlation with electrical conductivity values supporting the effect of evapoconcentration process on the evolution of the lake brine. This study presented an integrated geochemical approach that can help in understanding similar cases studies in arid environments.