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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-860
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2022-860
27 Sep 2022
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Brief communication: Mountain permafrost acts as an aquiclude during an infiltration experiment monitored with ERT time-lapse measurements

Mirko Pavoni, Jacopo Boaga, Alberto Carrera, Giulia Zuecco, Luca Carturan, and Matteo Zumiani

Abstract. Continuous frozen layers within the subsoil are generally assumed to act as aquicludes or aquitards. So far, this behavior has been mainly defined analyzing the geochemical characteristics of spring waters. In this work, for the first time, we experimentally confirmed this assumption by executing an infiltration test in a rock glacier of the Southern Alps, Italy. Time-lapse electrical tomography (ERT) technique was adopted to monitor the infiltration of a huge amount of water spilled on the surface of the rock glacier. 24 hours ERT monitoring highlighted that the injected water was not able to infiltrate into the underlying frozen layer.

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12 Apr 2023
Brief communication: Mountain permafrost acts as an aquitard during an infiltration experiment monitored with electrical resistivity tomography time-lapse measurements
Mirko Pavoni, Jacopo Boaga, Alberto Carrera, Giulia Zuecco, Luca Carturan, and Matteo Zumiani
The Cryosphere, 17, 1601–1607, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1601-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1601-2023, 2023
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In the last decades, geochemical investigations at the spring of rock glaciers have been used to...
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