Contamination of the cement raw material in a quarry site by seawater intrusion, Darica-Turkey

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2008-02-01

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Çamur, Mehmet Zeki

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The open pit mining nearby shoreline is planned to be extended into below sea level in order to use additional reserves of the cement raw material (marl). The raw material is currently contaminated by seawater intrusion below a depth of 20 m up to the distance of 90 m from shoreline. Seawater intrusion related contamination of the material used for the cement production was investigated by means of diffusion process for the future two below sea level mining scenarios covering 43 years of period. According to the results, chloride concentrations higher than the tolerable limit of a cement raw material would be present in the material about 10-25 cm inward from each discontinuity surface, controlling groundwater flow, located between 170 and 300 m landward from the shoreline at below sea level mining depths of 0-30 m. The estimations suggest that total amounts of dilution required for the contaminated raw material to reduce its concentration level to the tolerance limit with uncontaminated raw material are about 113- to 124-fold for scenario I (13 years of below sea level mining after 30 years of above sea level mining) and about 126- to 138-fold for scenario II (43 years of simultaneous above and below sea level minings).

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General Engineering, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), Soil Science, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Pollution, General Environmental Science, Water Science and Technology, Environmental Chemistry

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36791

Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s00254-007-0774-y

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M. Z. Çamur, “Contamination of the cement raw material in a quarry site by seawater intrusion, Darica-Turkey,” ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY, pp. 1673–1681, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/36791.