Groundwater and Geology of Coastal Areas
A special issue of Quaternary (ISSN 2571-550X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2021) | Viewed by 5253
Special Issue Editor
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Dear Colleagues,
In most of the planet, large cities tend to develop along coastal areas where there is also remarkable agricultural and tourist development. For these reasons, coastal aquifers are frequently subjected to intensive exploitation and, consequently, marine intrusion processes tend to proliferate, jeopardizing the supply of drinking water.
Global change on coastal areas brings, additionally, unpredictable consequences but with a clear socioeconomic impact. While extreme events are becoming more frequent, such as droughts, hurricanes, and uncontrolled fires affecting water resources, water demand rises steadily due to the increase of population making knowledge essential on one of the main reservoirs: aquifers. The impacts of this imbalance affect the whole planet, but coastal areas are especially vulnerable and require specialized and detailed studies.
To overcome the current and future challenges for water in coastal areas, topics such as coastal aquifer geometry, hydrogeochemical characterization, marine intrusion processes, and settlements linked to extractions or diagenetic processes are of great interest. Coastal ecosystems and their protection are a priority worldwide, from their identification and characterization, to possible impacts and compatibility with economic interests. The exorbitant increase in water demand in coastal areas is often confronted with technical solutions such as the construction of desalination plants, whose long-term impact on the environment is not entirely known. With improvement of management, using tools as a mathematical simulation of coastal processes, in spite of being used for decades, still requires advances in the modeling techniques and data collection methods.
The geology of coastal aquifers plays a fundamental role in all these challenges. Coastal aquifers are often composed by quaternary sediments in which heterogeneity, and changes of facies and sedimentary architecture determine the dynamics. The chemistry of groundwater is controlled by interaction with sediment grains, and even coastal processes such as erosion and sedimentation can influence the quality and quantity of groundwater resources.
This Special Issue aims to arouse the interest of specialists working on multiple disciplines covering the wide range of topics, problems, and conflicts triggered by water use, exploitation, and management in coastal areas and their links with geology of aquifers.
Prof. Dr. Ranko Biondić
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Coastal aquifers
- Seawater intrusion
- Coastal ecosystems
- Mathematical simulations
- Climatic change and coastal areas
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