Analysis of the reduction processes at the bottom of Lake Meirama: a singular case of lake formation.
Anoxia
Lakes formation
Methanization
Mine waters
Reduction processes
Journal
Environmental monitoring and assessment
ISSN: 1573-2959
Titre abrégé: Environ Monit Assess
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 8508350
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
27 Jul 2023
27 Jul 2023
Historique:
received:
21
11
2022
accepted:
12
07
2023
medline:
31
7
2023
pubmed:
28
7
2023
entrez:
27
7
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The formation of natural lakes is a process that takes place over thousands of years, although the volumetric formation depends on hydrological and climatological phenomena, reaching a stationary hydraulic regime, the evolution of hydrochemistry is more complex and obeys not only phenomena of stoichiometry and chemical kinetics but also diffusion processes. Depending on the depth of the lakes, the anoxization process originating from the bottom is the first phase of the lake's methanogenesis. For this, the course of many thousands of years is necessary, so the studies carried out in the lakes are limited to the current knowledge of the state in which they are, without being able to have real information in this process of methanogenesis. There are no data available on the generation process of a natural lake in its primary stages. In this case, taking advantage of the rehabilitation of the old open-pit mining of Meirama (Northwest Spain), consisting of the controlled flooding of the hole by groundwater, by stopping the perimeter pumping, and the derivation of the nearby streams, whose contribution was the majority with respect to the subterranean contribution, there has been the opportunity to physically and chemically monitor the complete filling of the said hole. The present study focuses on the analysis of the evolution of the different processes initiated in the methanogenesis of the lake bottom identified in the well-known Redox ladder: obtaining oxygen from the reduction of nitrogenous compounds and metallic oxides, from the reduction of the sulfate and the generation of methane from carbon compounds, the latter phase without reaching. Although the methanization process is very slow, it has had the opportunity to know the formation of a lake at its origin, from the hydrochemical point of view. It has been possible to verify that the methanization processes at the bottom, given the anoxia conditions, are in a very primitive phase with the reduction of nitrate and nitrite to ammonium and beginning a reduction of metal oxides and sulfate.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37500928
doi: 10.1007/s10661-023-11604-z
pii: 10.1007/s10661-023-11604-z
pmc: PMC10374486
doi:
Substances chimiques
Oxides
0
Sulfates
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1004Informations de copyright
© 2023. The Author(s).
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