Estimando a Potencialidade Hidrogeológica da Bacia Cárstica do Rio Vieira, Região Hidrográfica do Verde Grande, MG

In the Vieira River basin, north of Minas Gerais, where there is a predominance of three hydrogeological domains (granular, fractured, and karst-fractured), issues about inefficiency in the water resource management, coupled with the semi-arid climate and scarcity of local studies, worsen the condit...

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Autores: Rafaela Assunção Gurita, Paulo Henrique Ferreira Galvão, Maria Antonieta Alcântara Mourão, Pedro Henrique da Silva Assunção
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFMG
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufmg.br:1843/59754
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.14295/ras.v36i2.30156
http://hdl.handle.net/1843/59754
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7183-0368
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9477-3247
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Potencialidade Hidrogeológica
Aquífero Cárstico
Bacia Hidrogeológica
Montes Claros
Método APLIS
Bacias Hidrográficas
Aquíferos
Rios - Brasil
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Sumario:In the Vieira River basin, north of Minas Gerais, where there is a predominance of three hydrogeological domains (granular, fractured, and karst-fractured), issues about inefficiency in the water resource management, coupled with the semi-arid climate and scarcity of local studies, worsen the conditions of water availability, mainly in the dry season. The objective of this paper was to apply and adapt a method of delimitation of hydrogeological potentiality in a karst region by associating geological and morphological data well pumping tests (specific capacity, Q/s, and transmissivity, T), as well as geophysics, and remote sensing. The method was validated by calibrating weights of thematic maps with values of T and Q/s, indicating that the potentially more productive regions are correlated to four factors: 1) density of lineaments (morphostructural and geophysical) and karst features, mainly in the NE-SW and NNE-SSW directions; 2) types of local aquifer systems; 3) low slopes and nearby drainages; and 4) recharge. In the whole area, the spatial distribution of wells with high productivity variability is remarkable (Q/s ranging from 0.01 to 60 m³/h/m and T ranging from 10-5 to 10-3 m2/h), which indicates how much the karst aquifer in the region is anisotropic and heterogeneous.