A Modelling Approach for Assessing the Hydrogeological Equilibrium of the Karst, Coastal Aquifer of the Salento Peninsula (Southeastern Italy): Evaluating the Effects of a MAR Facility for Wastewater Reuse

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left">Lithostratigraphic unit</td><td class="align_center">Lithological features</td><td class="align_center">Geological age</td><td class="align_center">Hydrogeological characteristics</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="4"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Altamura limestone</td><td class="align_center">Limestones and dolomitic limestones</td><td class="align_center">Cretaceous</td><td class="align_center">Fractured and karst main aquifer</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Galatone unit</td><td class="align_center">Compact limestones, marls, and sandy clay</td><td class="align_center">Oligocene</td><td class="align_center">Generally impermeable deposits</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Miocene unit</td><td class="align_center">Calcarenites and marly limestones</td><td class="align_center">Miocene</td><td class="align_center">Porous aquifers</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Pliocene unit</td><td class="align_center">Breccias and calcareous conglomerates</td><td class="align_center">Pliocene</td><td class="align_center">Porous aquifers</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Gravina calcarenites</td><td class="align_center">Biodetritic calcarenite</td><td class="align_center">Lower Pleistocene</td><td class="align_center">Porous aquifers</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Subappennine clays</td><td class="align_center">Clays</td><td class="align_center">Lower to Middle Pleistocene</td><td class="align_center">Aquitard</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Terrace deposits</td><td class="align_center">Sands and silty sands</td><td class="align_center">Upper Pleistocene</td><td class="align_center">Porous shallow aquifers</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="4"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>List of the lithostratigraphic units identified and their hydrogeological characteristics (modified after De Filippis et al. [<a href="/journals/geofluids/2019/5714535/#B33" target="_blank">33</a>]).</div>

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Table 1: A Modelling Approach for Assessing the Hydrogeological Equilibrium of the Karst, Coastal Aquifer of the Salento Peninsula (Southeastern Italy): Evaluating the Effects of a MAR Facility for Wastewater Reuse 

Table 1 | A Modelling Approach for Assessing the Hydrogeological Equilibrium of the Karst, Coastal Aquifer of the Salento Peninsula (Southeastern Italy): Evaluating the Effects of a MAR Facility for Wastewater Reuse 