『Abstract
The dissolved silica concentrations in groundwater, springwater,
and streamwater were measured on an unchanneled hillslope in the
Tanakami Mountains of central Japan. The effects of preferential
flowpaths, including lateral and vertical flow in the soil layer
and flow through bedrock fractures, on the variation in the dissolved
silica concentrations in runoff and groundwater were examined,
as were the effects of the mixing of water from geochemically
diverse water sources on the dissolved silica concentrations.
The mean dissolved silica concentrations in water sampled from
40 cm below the soil surface and in transiently formed groundwater
above the soil-bedrock interface during rainfall events were relatively
constant, independent of the variation in the mixing ratio of
pre-event water and incoming throughfall. These waters were mostly
supplied by the vertical infiltration of water in soil. The mean
dissolved silica concentrations were similar, regardless of sampling
depth, although the mean residence time of the water increased
with depth. These results indicated that the dissolved silica
concentrations in soil water and transient groundwater were independent
of contact time between the water and minerals. The mean dissolved
silica concentration in perennially saturated groundwater above
the soil-bedrock interface, which was recharged by water infiltrating
through soil, and water emerging from bedrock in an area near
the spring was more than twice that of transient groundwater,
and the variation was relatively large. The mean dissolved silica
concentration increased significantly downslope, from perennial
groundwater to spring from soil matrix to stream, and the spring
and stream concentrations also showed large variations. The dissolved
silica concentration was highest in the spring from a bedrock
fracture and was relatively constant. The mixing of water from
two geochemically diverse water sources, soil and bedrock, controlled
the dissolved silica concentrations of the perennial groundwater,
the spring from soil matrix, and the stream. Our results demonstrated
that in most areas of this headwater catchment, the preferential
flowpaths have only a small effect on the dissolved silica concentrations.
In a small area, which was <2% of the total catchment area near
the spring, the dissolved silica concentration was controlled
by the mixing of water from geochemically diverse water sources.』
1. Introduction
2. Study site
3. Terminology and background hydrologic conditions
4. Material and methods
4.1. Field and laboratory method
4.2. Evaluation of new water ratio
4.3. Endmember mixing analysis
4.4. Diseqruilibrium indices
5. Results
5.1. Dissolved silica concentration
5.2. Streamflow
5.3. Temporal variation in δD
5.4. Spatial distribution of endmembers
5.5. Temperature
5.6. Disequilibrium index
6. Discussion
6.1. Small variation in dissolved silica concentration in
transient groundwater
6.2. Large variation in dissolved silica concentration in perennial
grounwater and spring and stream water
6.3. Differences in dissolved silica concentration in soil and
bedrock
7. Implication for chemical weathering reactions and suggestions
for future studies
8. Summary and conclusions
Acknowledgments
References
Appendix 1
Appendix 2