Almudena de la Losa RománInstituto Geológico y Minero de España | IGME · Department of Geosciences Research and Prospective
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Increasingly bottled Natural Mineral Water (NMW) is proposed as a healthy and safe alternative to supply water. However, tap supply water often comes from aquifers (TGW), even from the same aquifers as NMW, sharing the exact formation mechanisms and mineralization processes. Therefore, it is hypothesized that NMW and TGW cannot be distinguished. Th...
Programa para el análisis de las facies hidroquímicas en el diagrama de Piper. Metodología cuantitativa incorporada en Python. Permite una mejora en la detección, análisis e interpretación de procesos hidroquímicos.
La aplicación de Q-Facies a la base de datos de análisis químicos de Reimann y Birke (2010) ha permitido estudiar las principales tendencias de consumo en referencia a la composición de las aguas embotelladas que se comercializan en los países europeos.
Abstract Simulatingflow through multilayer aquifer systems is essential for groundwater management applications such evaluating natural recharge, assessing managed aquifer recharge (MAR), the characterization of surface water–groundwater interactions, and groundwater pollution risk analysis. However, dealing with flow through variably saturated por...
The artificial lighting of caves adapted for touristic visits, leads to the appearance and propagation of a complex community of phototrophic organisms known as “lampenflora”. Formed mainly by algae and cyanobacteria, they produce the degradation of the colonized substrates and decrease the show value of the caves. This phenomenon became famous wor...
Los pozos, sondeos y en general las captaciones abandonadas constituyen potenciales vías de contaminación de las aguas subterráneas, bien por vertidos directos en su interior, bien por conectar a través de la columna del pozo acuíferos con mala calidad natural o contaminados por la acción humana, además de constituir un peligro de caída de animales...
Las rutas geológicas constituyen una herramienta para la puesta en valor del medio natural, tanto desde un punto de vista paisajístico como cultural, además del evidente medio geológico, constituyendo, en conjunto, una fuente potencial de atracción turística. En los últimos años, el aumento de este tipo de actividades, como son el Geolodía o el Hid...
Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park is one of Spain's most representative groundwater‐dependent ecosystems. Under natural conditions, water inflows combined brackish surface water from River Gigüela with freshwater inputs from River Guadiana and the underlying aquifer. Since the mid‐1970s, aquifer overexploitation caused the desiccation of the wetl...
The guide sets out the environmental criteria for the use of construction and demolition waste classified as inert in the restoration, conditioning and backfilling of open-pit and quaries sites affected by mining and metallurgical activity. All within the framework of Directive 2008/98/EC and Royal Decrees 975/2009 and 1481/2001.
ESP: El Parque Nacional de Las Tablas de Daimiel es un humedal de importancia internacional sometido a una fuerte presión agraria desde el siglo XVIII. El impacto de dicha presión ha sido analizado a partir del estudio de los sedimentos acumulados en el interior del humedal. Se han encontrado varias anomalías sedimentarias que separan al humedal de...
Located in a semi-arid zone of the central Iberian Peninsula, the Tablas de Daimiel National Park is a wetland of inter national significance that has experienced intense agricultural pressure since the eighteenth century. The impact of this is recorded in the sediments within the wetland, which have been studied by means of sur veys. Several sedim...
In this paper we analyse and compare the efficiency of electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) as tools for stratigraphic and sedimentological studies. To this end, we carried out borehole drilling and geophysical survey campaigns in two locations in Las Tablas de Daimiel area (Ciudad Real, Spain). In this region, th...
El control y gestión del agua es una de las cuestiones que más preocupan a la sociedad actual. Un espacio paradigmático de las complejas relaciones por el control del agua es la presa de Puente Navarro situada en el río Guadiana a la salida del Parque Nacional de Las Tablas de Daimiel, en la provincia de Ciudad Real. La canalización del humedal y s...
Recomendaciones, métodos y legislación acerca de las técnicas de muestreo, transporte y conservación de las aguas subterráneas, de la zona saturada y no saturada, destinadas al análisis químico y microbiológico. Queda fuera del alcance de esta obra el tratamiento y conservación de las muestras en los laboratorios de análisis.
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Human settlements around the fluvial wetland of Las Tablas de Daimiel (central Spain) have been related to the water availability in this area for nearly 5500 years; however the relationship of the hydrology of the wetland to climate change remains uncertain. Whilst archaeological and pollen data provide contradictory arguments, statistical empiric...
Los datos del registro sedimentario son una excelente herramienta para contrastar las fuentes historiográficas, sobre todo en los estudios agrarios o medioambientales. El análisis de ambos tipos de datos sirve para comprender los cambios acaecidos en el Parque Nacional de Las Tablas de Daimiel durante la Edad Contemporánea. Una serie de anomalías e...
Groundwater contamination by nitrate is one of the several environmental problems that may be caused by the application of organic amendments to agricultural soils, and is a key issue in the European Union's environmental policy. The use of predictive tools such as flow and transport models for soluble forms could be helpful for preventing the risk...
Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park, located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, is one of the most representative Mediterranean wetland linked to groundwater dynamic. In natural conditions, the wetland system was a mixing of: brackish surface water came mainly from Gigüela River in the North, and freshwater inputs from the Guadiana River (surf...
Many household batteries worldwide still end up in landfills or are incinerated due to inefficient collection and recycling schemes. Toxic heavy metals from improperly discarded button cells pose a serious risk to human health and the environment, as they can pollute air, soil and water. This paper analyses a series of button cells selected from ba...
Las Tablas de Daimiel es un humedal mediterráneo singular cuya existencia y evolución natural están muy condicionadas por las características de la cuenca hidrográfica, la complejidad geológica del sustrato, la vegetación y la actividad humana. Los sedimentos acumulados registran las interacciones y cambios, tanto
naturales como inducidos por el ho...
Las Tablas de Daimiel son un humedal mediterráneo singular cuya existencia y evolución natural están muy condicionadas por las características de la cuenca hidrográfica y la complejidad geológica del sustrato y de la vegetación, que son los elementos constructores del paisaje de la zona húmeda y de sus sedimentos. Por otro lado, la historia de Las...
Las Tablas de Daimiel are unique Mediterranean wetlands whose existence and natural evolution are strongly determined by the characteristics of the river basin, the geological complexity of the substrate and vegetation, which are the building elements of the landscape of the wetlands and its sediments.
But not only natural elements are part of the...
Las Tablas de Daimiel son un humedal mediterráneo singular cuya existencia y evolución natural están muy condicionadas por las características de la cuenca hidrográfica y la complejidad geológica del sustrato y de la vegetación, que son los elementos constructores del paisaje de la zona húmeda y de sus sedimentos. Por otro lado, la historia de Las...
Since autumn 2012, groundwater has become a water input to Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park through discharge to the river Guadiana.This fact reflects the "quasi-natural" situation that has been achieved so far in
the park.The monitoring of the chemical quality of the river water and nearby points has been carried out during the period December...
Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park (TDNP), located in the center of the Iberian Peninsula, was a Mediterranean wetland linked to groundwater dynamics. In natural conditions, the water of the wetland was a mixing of surface water and groundwater. Brackish surface water came mainly from Cigüela River, entering the TDNP by the northeastern area. Fres...
The appearance of flooded areas near the Ojos del Guadiana and surface runoff in relation to groundwater springs in the Guadiana course in 2012 suggested the recovery of the Mancha occidental aquifer in the vicinity of the Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park. In December 2012, several continuous cores were drilled in the southern margin of the Park...
En el entorno del Parque Nacional de Las Tablas de Daimiel (PNTD), las aguas subterráneas presentan una gran variabilidad espacial y temporal de su composición de isótopos estables. Ello es debido a: i) su situación en una zona marginal de una gran cuenca sedimentaria, que origina un acuífero de comportamiento multicapa en gran parte de la zona en...
En otoño de 2009 dio comienzo una etapa húmeda en la zona central de la Península Ibérica que, en el caso del Parque Nacional de Las Tablas de Daimiel, se ha concretado en varias inundaciones casi totales desde comienzos de 2010, gracias a los aportes desde los cauces fluviales del norte y, por primera vez desde la década de 1980, desde el sur por...
En el entorno del Parque Nacional de Las Tablas de Daimiel (PNTD), las aguas subterráneas presentan una gran variabilidad espacial y temporal de su composición de isótopos estables. Ello es debido a: i) su situación en una zona marginal de una gran cuenca sedimentaria, que origina un acuífero de comportamiento multicapa en gran parte de la zona en...
Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park (TDNP) in Spain is one of the most important semiarid wetlands of the Mediterranean area. The inversion of the regional groundwater flow, primarily due to overexploitation and inadequate aquifer management, has led to degradation. The system has turned from a groundwater discharge zone into a recharge zone, and h...
Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park (PNTD) is one of the most representative Mediterranean wetlands in the Iberian Peninsula. It developed under semiarid climate by concentrating both surface water and groundwater contributions from a major part of the Upper Guadiana basin. Under natural conditions, the wetland system was maintained by groundwater...
The study of the behavior of water isotopes was made by comparing different isotopes each other and with the EC as representative of the chemical quality of water, and also by analyzing the temporal evolution of the isotopes with some variables reflects environmental water conditions. This could help determine if the wetland lost water or if the gr...
Geological mapping and cores show the complexity of the substratum of the actual wetland of Las Tablas de Daimiel and they allow to analyze its recent record.
Present day wetland of Las Tablas de Daimiel develops upon Pliocene deposits and the incised deposits of the Guadiana River and tributaries, and represents an episode of aggradation built up...
Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park (PNTD) is one of the most representative Mediterranean wetlands in the Iberian Peninsula. It developed under semiarid climate by concentrating both surface water and groundwater contributions from a major part of the Upper Guadiana basin. Under natural conditions, the wetland system was maintained by groundwater...
El ecosistema hídrico del Parque Nacional de Las Tablas de Daimiel (PNTD) en régimen natural se sustentaba en las aportaciones de aguas de origen tanto superficial como subterráneo las cuales presentaban diferentes cualidades químicas. La alimentación más directa y visible provenía del río Cigüela (o Gigüela) que penetra en las Tablas por el N.E.,...
En este trabajo, resumen de otro más amplio (Aguilera et al., 2013), se analizan las interacciones entre los dos componentes esenciales del ciclo hídrico del sistema del PNTD, proporcionando evidencias empíricas para definir un modelo conceptual de la interrelación entre inundación-infiltración-dinámica subterránea mediante la aplicación
de un anál...
Las aguas subterráneas han sido un componente vital del funcionamiento geológico, hídrico y ecológico de las zonas húmedas en el sector del actual Parque Nacional de Las Tablas de Daimiel (PNTD). Su ausencia como entrada del balance hídrico, a partir de la década de 1980, originó un progresivo deterioro del humedal, que ha supuesto prácticamente su...
Gran parte de las actuaciones directas que ha realizado el hombre en el último medio siglo en el Parque Nacional de las Tablas de Daimiel ha tenido como objetivo el medio hídrico, en un principio para desecar el humedal y posteriormente para mantenerlo inundado. Estas obras hidráulicas han afectado considerablemente al medio hídrico del entorno, ta...
La desecación del humedal del PNTD es sin duda la consecuencia más relevante del continuado descenso de los niveles piezométricos, provocados por el excesivo bombeo del agua subterránea en el acuífero de la Mancha Occidental. Sin embargo, existen otros efectos
inmediatos que, aunque ocultos a la observación directa, modifican gravemente el esquema...
The 2005-2009 period was very dry in the area and the water inputs were scarce. For a long time, treated wastewater spilled to a ditch was the only input in the northern area of the Park. This water was sampled in the spring of 2008 along the ditch, in order to characterize the evaporative process by means of stable water isotopes.
Desde mediados de la década de 1970, la explotación intensiva del acuífero que alimentaba el humedal del Parque Nacional de Las Tablas de Daimiel produjo un paulatino secado al cesar la aportación de agua subterránea. Para evitarlo, se realizó un conjunto de actuaciones drásticas que cambiaron el régimen hídrico, con lo que el Parque Nacional es ac...
A multivariate analysis approach has been developed in order to explain the observed variability in soil chemistry at Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park (TDNP). Either natural or anthropogenic alterations of the amount or distribution of these chemicals may have severe consequences not only on the Tablas ecosystem itself, but also downstream the w...
Las Tablas de Daimiel National Park (TDNP), recognized as both Biosphere reserve by UNESCO and Ramsar site, is one of the
last representatives in the Iberian Peninsula of Mediterranean wetlands linked to groundwater dynamics. It constitutes an
outstanding flora and fauna reserve. The inappropriate agricultural management of the groundwater resource...
The inversion of the hydraulic gradient, primarily due to overexploitation and inadequate hydraulic management of the Western
La Mancha carbonated aquifer, has led to the desiccation of the Tablas de Daimiel National Park (TDNP). As a consequence,
a permanent unsaturated zone (UZ) has appeared beneath the former wetland area, making the carbonated...
A monitoring network ir cluding 19 control points for surface-water and groundwater and two collectors for atmospheric bulk deposition (wet and dry) were established in the area of the Tablas de Daim1el National Park. Chloride and bromide contents in these samples were determined and the concentration
ratios of these anions (CI /Br ratio) were anal...
The study tackles the environmental impact on aquatic ecosystems caused by coal mining activity in the Carboniferous Area of El Bierzo. This survey is based on the methodology of the USGS (Geological Survey of the United States of America) Assessment of Metal Bioavailability in a Watershed Affected by Abandoned Mine Lands. The application of this m...
Soil most relevant physical properties are described: bulk density, porosity, hydraulic
conductivity at saturation, infiltration capacity, moisture retention curves, wetting rate and soil water repellency
of five soil functional types described in the Tablas de Daimiel National Park. Results show high infiltration
capacities under field conditions...
The intensive exploitation of the "Mancha occidental" aquifer has caused that groundwater discharge in the Tablas de Daimiel area has been decreasing since the 1980's decade until they completely stopped. This fact has favoured the progressive development of an unsaturated zone which had not existed before and a full inversion in the water flux dir...
The Tablas de Daimiel National Park is located at the end of both a 15,000 km2 surface catchment and a 5,000 km2 groundwater one, the "Mancha occidental" aquifer. The intensive exploitation of this aquifer has caused that groundwater discharge in the Tablas de Daimiel area has been decreasing since the 1980's decade until they completely stopped. T...
This work is included in a multidisciplinary project that studies the environmental and health
impact of the application of sewage sludge on agricultural lands. A model for flow and pollutant transport is
necessary to asses the possible affection to groundwater in the experimental area, which is located in a
agricultural land in Arganda del Rey (Ma...
The intensive exploitation of the “Mancha occidental” aquifer has caused that groundwater discharge in the Tablas de Daimiel area has been decreasing since the 1980’s decade until they completely stopped. This fact has favoured the progressive development of an unsaturated zone which had not existed before and a full inversion in the water flux dir...
The intensive exploitation of the West La Mancha aquifer has caused a decrease in groundwater
discharge in the Tablas de Daimiel area since the 1970’s until they completely stopped. This fact has favoured
the progressive development of an unsaturated zone, which did not exist before, and a full inversion in the water
flux direction, as drainage zon...
Debido a la explotación intensiva del acuífero de la Mancha occidental, su principal fuente de agua, Las Tablas de Daimiel ha pasado a ser una zona de recarga, por lo que cualquier recurso hídrico del Parque Nacional tenderá a infiltrarse y a perderse desde las zonas encharcadas. Se ha producido también una inversión del flujo subterráneo en la ver...
Debido a la explotación intensiva del acuífero de la Mancha occidental, su principal fuente de agua, Las Tablas de Daimiel ha pasado a ser una zona de recarga, por lo que cualquier recurso hídrico del Parque Nacional tenderá a infiltrarse y a perderse desde las zonas encharcadas. Se ha producido también una inversión del flujo subterráneo en la ver...
In this paper influence of some pH conditions and rock texture on the capacity of arsenic lixiviation from the materials of the Carlés granitic skarn metamorphic aureole has been estimated. So 6 samples with different arsenic content belonging to igneous and aureole materials with different alteration conditions and grain sizes have been selected a...
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The overall aim is to study the impact of climate change on groundwater resources in wetlands with semi-arid climate based on the field site Doñana National Park. General objectives to match this aim are the measurement and estimation of groundwater recharge using precision weighing lysimeter monitoring, and their dependence on meteorological, hydrogeological and soil parameters. The recharge estimations and their dependence on measured meteorological parameters will be used to generate prognostic recharge time series based on temperature and precipitation data simulated by Climatic Models. The impact of the prognosticated changes of recharge on groundwater resources and selected surface water levels will be studied based on numerical groundwater flow models at different spatio-temporal scales. The internationalization of the monitoring results is another general aim and will be performed by integration of the measured data into the Singular Scientific and Technological Infrastructure of Doñana Biological Station (DBS), the responsible Institute for Research of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) state in Seville.