Study of the mixing pattern of Lake Kainji using stable isotopes

Environmental Isotopes in Lake Studies

“…An almost unique case is that of Lake Kainji in Nigeria, in which large iso topic variations occurring seasonally in the inflowing water have been used to investigate the mixing patterns (Dinger et al, 1979b;Zimmermann et al, 1976). Lake Kainji is a large artificial lake created in 1968 after the construction of the Kainji dam on the Niger River.…”

Physical hydrology

“…Bath, 1983;Dray et al, 1983). Deuterium and 18 0 ratios have also been successfully employed in a wide variety of other hydrological contexts including separation of the flow components of storm hydrographs (Fritz et al, 1976a) investigation of the input and mixing of different tributary inputs to lakes (Zimmermann et al, 1976), elucidation of the hydraulic connections between lakes and groundwater aquifiers (Drost and Moser, 1983), assessment of lake water balances (Lewis, 1979;Zuber, 1983), estimation of transpiration by swamp vegetation (Din~er et al, 1979), investigation of the liquid and vapour components of water flux within dry soils (Barnes and Allison, 1984), tracing of leachates from landfill sites (Fritz et al, 1976b) and dating of snow profiles and glacier ice cores (Moser and Stichler, 1983).…”