Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : International audience
This communication reports on a field experiment carried out on a microtidal beach in Camargue, France. The analysis is built on the initial work presented by Sous et al. (2016) on swash-groundwater dynamics. The analysis of a cross-shore network of buried pressure sensors allows to monitor the watertable dynamics over the full 2013-2014 winter season. The pressure head gradients are observed to be primarily seaward, forced by a higher level at the landward boundary. The groundwater flux is driven by the relative fluctuations of Still Water Level and inland elevations. Rain and tides have a little effect. A nearly isolated groundwater circulation is driven by wave activity below the swash zone whatever the overall watertable gradient. Estimations of beach groundwater discharge over the Gulf of Beauduc reveal the importance of beach groundwater in the exchanges between coastal aquifer and open sea.
Coastal Dynamics 2017
Helsingor, Denmark

hal-01562908
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01562908

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
This manuscript reports on a novel field experiment carried out on a microtidal beach in Camargue, France. For the first time in the field, a comprehensive description of the groundwater dynamics under sandy beach swash zone is presented. A cross-shore network of 15 buried pressure sensors is combined with terrestrial LiDAR measurements to study the swash-groundwater dynamics. The presented data focus on the decay of a moderate storm which allows to monitor the evolution of the groundwater pressure field in response to the retreat of the swash zone. Both horizontal and vertical head gradients are measured within the porous sand soil to estimate the groundwater flow field using Darcy’s law. Time-averaged analysis demonstrates the presence of a rather consistent groundwater circulation pattern under the swash zone, shifting offshore with the swash zone. The main tendency is an offshore directed flow, with infiltration/exfiltration in the upper/lower parts of the swash zone. Time-resolved analysis highlights the typical groundwater response to swash events which consists mainly of an overall infiltration flow during the bed inundation by the swash tongue, a seaward flow during the swash retreat and, for long backwash events, a localized exfiltration flow under the next incoming uprush.
ISSN: 0309-1708

hal-01412450
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01412450
DOI : 10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.09.009

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Wiley
Résumé : International audience
Most of the Mediterranean coastal porous aquifers are intensively exploited. Because of climatic and anthropogenic effects, understanding the physical and geological controls on groundwater distribution and flow dynamics in such aquifers is crucial. This study presents the results of a structural investigation of a system located along the coastline of the Gulf of Lions (NW Mediterranean). A key aspect of this study relies on an onshore-offshore integrated approach combining outcrops, seismic profiles, and borehole data analysis. This multidisciplinary approach provides constraints on pore-fluid salinity distribution and stratigraphic organization, which are crucial in assessing the modes of groundwater/seawater exchanges. Onshore, Lower Pliocene deposits dip gently seaward. They are unconformably overlain by Holocene clays in the lagoons. Offshore the Pliocene deposits either outcrop at the seabed or are buried below nonconsolidated sands infilling paleo-valleys. Beneath the lido, the groundwater salinity distribution consists of salty pore water, overlying fresher pore water. Active circulation of groundwater masses is inferred from the geophysical results. In particular, offshore outcrops and paleo-valleys may play an important role in salt water intrusion.
ISSN: 0017-467X

halsde-00866825
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halsde-00866825
DOI : 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2012.01011.x

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : Karst systems are the most important groundwater reservoirs in Mediterranean areas. Their structure and functioning are complex and not well known because of the high heterogeneity created and organised by groundwater flow. Water storage entities and water storage changes within remain difficult to assess by direct measurement and modelling. Geodetic monitoring is here used to constrain and bring original insights on karst system functioning. The Durzon karst system (Larzac plateau, Southern France) is monitored by several geodetic techniques: - Monthly absolute gravity measurements at three sites - Time-lapse surface to depth gravity measurements - Time-lapse microgravity surveying - Continuous long base hydrostatic tiltmeter monitoring at two sites Absolute gravity monitoring complemented with relative gravity surveys allows quantification of water storage changes on the studied karst system. Interannual water storage changes as detected by gravity are ~400 mm in amplitude. These storage changes are shown to occur in the epikarst and infiltration zone in certain areas. Water storage variations spatial heterogeneity is also demonstrated on the karst system. Tilt measurements monitor fast and slow infiltration processes within the karst fractured media. Karst system geodetic monitoring brings both quantitative and integrated hydrologic knowledge. Such methods could be applied to other karst aquifer studies.
Les aquifères karstiques constituent l'essentiel des ressources en eau souterraine sur le pourtour de la Méditerranée. Leur structure et leur fonctionnement sont complexes et mal connus à cause du processus de karstification qui hiérarchise la circulation hydrodynamique en leur sein. La localisation du stockage de l'eau et de ses variations au sein de tels aquifères est difficile à mesurer et à modéliser. Nous utilisons les outils de la géodésie pour apporter de nouvelles contraintes sur le fonctionnement hydrologique et les variations de stock d'eau en milieu karstique. Ainsi, le système karstique du Durzon, (Causse du Larzac, France) fait l'objet d'un suivi par plusieurs méthodes géodésiques incluant: - Des mesures de gravimétrie absolue en trois sites répétées de manière mensuelle ; - Des mesures répétées de gravimétrie relative entre la surface et la profondeur du karst ; - Des mesures répétées de microgravimétrie ; - Des mesures inclinométriques longue base en deux sites. Nous démontrons que le couplage entre la gravimétrie absolue et relative permet d'appréhender les variations de stock d'eau sur le bassin d'alimentation étudié. Les variations inter-anuelles observées sont de l'ordre de 400 mm, et nous montrons que celles-ci s'opèrent dans certaines zones au sein des horizons supérieurs du karst : épikarst et zone d'infiltration. Une forte hétérogénéité spatiale des variations de stockage est aussi mise en évidence à l'échelle du bassin d'alimentation. Les mesures inclinométriques permettent de suivre les phénomènes d'infiltration rapide et lente dans la masse karstique fracturée. Le suivi géodésique de ce système karstique permet d'apprécier quantitativement et de façon intégrée son fonctionnement hydrologique et pourra être transposé pour l'étude d'autres aquifère karstiques.
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00404851

tel-00404851
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00404851
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00404851/document
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00404851/file/THESE_jacob.pdf

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD
Résumé : Karst systems are the most important groundwater reservoirs in Mediterranean area. Beyond saturated zone, unsaturated zone constitute an entity where water storage and transfer play a major role in a global behavior of spring water. This structure and functioning are complex and not well known because of the high heterogeneity created and organized by groundwater flow. In this study, we used gravimetric and hydrogeologic method to directly observe and quantify water storage and transfer processes in unsaturated zone of karst system. Surface to depth gravity measurements on several karst system allow quantifying seasonal water storage changes in unsaturated zone. We show that these variations occur in the first tens meters of unsaturated zone. Furthermore, water storage capacity of unsaturated zone seems to be influenced by lithology (limestone or dolomite). Finally, direct observations of water flow in unsaturated zone are done using caves access. We show that some characteristics of unsaturated water flow such as bipolar slow-fast flow can be widespread for whatever depth of measurement and recharge area. Model of this flow, using a simple modeling scheme, show the complexity of water transfer processes in unsaturated zone of karst system.
Les aquifères karstiques constituent l'essentiel des ressources en eau du pourtour Méditerranéen. Au-delà de la zone saturée de ces systèmes, la zone non saturée constitue une entité importante quant au transfert et au stockage temporaire de l'eau. La structure et le fonctionnement de cette entité du karst sont complexes et mal connus à cause du processus de karstification qui hiérarchise la circulation hydrodynamique en son sein. Dans cette étude nous utilisons des méthodes géodésiques et hydrogéologiques afin d'observer de façon directe et de quantifier les processus de transfert et de stockage de la zone non saturée. Les mesures gravimétriques en surface et profondeur sur différents systèmes karstiques ont permis de quantifier les variations du stockage en eau saisonnier dans la zone non saturée. La gravimétrie différentielle montre que ces variations sont réparties dans les quelques premiers mètres de la zone non saturée. Il semble, de plus, que la capacité de stockage de la zone non saturée soit fonction de la lithologie de l'encaissant (calcaire et dolomie). Enfin, des observations directes du flux d'eau en zone non saturée ont été effectuées par le biais de mesures dans différentes cavités. Nous montrons que certaines caractéristiques du flux d'eau en zone non saturée, comme la présence d'un flux bipolaire lent-rapide, peuvent être généralisées quelque soit la profondeur de mesure et la surface d'impluvium. La modélisation de ce flux, à partir d'un schéma simple, a montré la complexité des processus de transfert engendrés au sein de la zone non saturée.
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00829346

tel-00829346
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00829346
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00829346/document
https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00829346/file/manuscrit_deville_finish.pdf

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : International audience
Time-series bathymetric data acquired from 1967 to 2011 are used to evaluate the morphological evolution of the continental shelf and upper continental slope off the city of Nice (SE France, Ligurian Sea). Mapping in water depths of 0–300 m was undertaken to identify the changing morphology of landslide scars and their erosive chutes. Quantitative Digital Terrain Model (DTM) comparisons reveal areas of erosion and deposition over intervals of 5–8 years. Sediment remobilization events on the upper slope (above depths of 200 m) are frequent and significant; landslide scars with volumes > 25,000 m3 can occur with frequencies of < 8 years. Shelf break retreat toward the coastline can reach 60 m over 7–8 years where the continental shelf is wider (> 200 m). Periods of quiescence (1980–1990 and 2006–2011) are seen to alternate with periods when rapid retrogressive failure increase sediment volumes eroded from the upper slope-shelf transition by an order of magnitude (1999–2006). Temporal variations in landslide activity were correlated to several potential triggering factors that individually would not induce failures, including earthquake activity, rapid deposition of fine-grained sediments on a steep slope, and rainfall leading to fresh groundwater circulation below the shelf. This 4D bathymetric study suggests that over the last 50 years the most important factor triggering landslides offshore Nice is overpressure due to freshwater outflows.
ISSN: 0025-3227

hal-01346866
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01346866
DOI : 10.1016/j.margeo.2016.06.009

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Wiley-Blackwell
Résumé : International audience
Sinkholes are frequently observed where soluble rocks are present, in meteoritic recharge areas or when subsurface dissolution causes ground collapse. Seismic profiles on the inner shelf of the Gulf of Lions (W. Mediterranean) display a giant atypical sub-circular structure, up to 800-m thick and 2-km wide. It is characterized by down-warped internal seismic reflections forming a concave V-shaped depression rooted in the substratum, most likely carbonated. This structure is interpreted as a poly-phased solution-subsidence/collapse structure of Plio-Quaternary age. The last phase of deformation probably occurred during the last sea-level low-stand phase. The mechanism proposed for the creation of this structure is collapse/dissolution of the soluble substratum, as a result of a combination of several possible factors including pre-existing deep Messinian palaeo-karst with active groundwater flows during Plio-Quaternary lowstands, and deep-rooted acidic fluids ascending through the substratum.
ISSN: 0954-4879

hal-00758063
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00758063
DOI : 10.1111/j.1365-3121.2011.01051.x

Éditeur(s) : HAL CCSD Elsevier
Résumé : Several nuclides of the ;238;U (;234;U, ;230;Th, ;226;Ra, ;210;Pb) and ;235;U (;231;Pa, ;227;Ac) decay series have been measured through gamma spectrometry in the U-bearing episyenites of the Bernardan mine (northwest Massif Central, France), in order to study recent mobilizations in the U-deposit and their time-scales. (;230;Th/;238;U) and (;231;Pa/;235;U) ratios show that U has been little affected during the last 350 ky, especially in the U-rich samples. In contrast, ;226;Ra was subjected to a general redistribution, with a clear tendency for Ra to be lost from the U-rich samples and added to U-poor samples. The highest Ra excesses are present in low-U samples, and are related to adsorption onto iron hydroxides. Ra appears to have been redistributed within the mineralised episyenitic bodies, which seem to remain in ;226;Ra–;238;U radioactive equilibrium, a result consistent with the earlier study of Leroy [1984. Episyénitisation dans le gisement d'uranium du Bernardan (Marche): Comparaison avec des gisements similaires du Nord-Ouest du Massif Central français. Miner. Depos. 19, 26–35]. As shown by the ;226;Ra and ;210;Pb data, the Ra redistribution was very active between 8 and 0.1 ky, and this might be a consequence of the hydrological changes in groundwater circulation accompanying the Holocene climate warming.
ISSN: 0009-2541

hal-00407600
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00407600
DOI : 10.1016/j.chemgeo.2007.06.020