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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-1601-2023
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Brief communication: Mountain permafrost acts as an aquitard during an infiltration experiment monitored with electrical resistivity tomography time-lapse measurements
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Jacopo Boaga
Department of Geosciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Alberto Carrera
Department of Agronomy, Food, Natural Resources, Animals and
Environment, University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy
Giulia Zuecco
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry,
University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy
Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Padua, Italy
Luca Carturan
Department of Land, Environment, Agriculture and Forestry,
University of Padova, Legnaro (PD), Italy
Matteo Zumiani
Servizio Geologico, Provincia Autonoma di Trento, Italy
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Short summary
In the last decades, geochemical investigations at the springs of rock glaciers have been used to estimate their drainage processes, and the frozen layer is typically considered to act as an aquiclude or aquitard. In this work, we evaluated the hydraulic behavior of a mountain permafrost site by executing a geophysical monitoring experiment. Several hundred liters of salt water have been injected into the subsurface, and geoelectrical measurements have been performed to define the water flow.
In the last decades, geochemical investigations at the springs of rock glaciers have been used...