Articles | Volume 7, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-881-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-881-2016
Method article
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01 Jun 2016
Method article |  | 01 Jun 2016

Structural geology and geophysics as a support to build a hydrogeologic model of granite rock

Lurdes Martinez-Landa, Jesús Carrera, Andrés Pérez-Estaún, Paloma Gómez, and Carmen Bajos

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In the present study we present a methodology of how structural geology and geophysics techniques, together with hydrochemical and hydraulic data, can help in identifying the main fractures that conduct most of the groundwater flow in a granitic pluton (low-permeability fractured media). Using the values of transmissivities obtained from 3-D numerical models of the local hydraulic test interpretation, we have been able to reproduce the effect of a large-scale and long-term pumping test.