%0 Journal Article
%T Multidisciplinary Approach for a Basement Aquifer Location in Tanda Region, Côte d¡¯Ivoire
%A Adama Coulibaly
%A Omer Z¨¦phir de Lasme
%A Ta Marc Youan
%A Gbomb¨¦l¨¦ Soro
%A Th¨¦ophile Lasm
%A Nagnin Soro
%J Journal of Water Resource and Protection
%P 1111-1128
%@ 1945-3108
%D 2019
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/jwarp.2019.119065
%X The lack of knowledge about fracture systems in Tanda region has led to an approximative establishment of drilling and so a difficult access to groundwater. Thus, a multidisciplinary approach including satellite imagery and electrical resistivity method was conducted with the main objective to locate productive fractures of water in the study area. Indeed, 195-54, 195-55, 196-54, and 196-55 scenes of Landsat 7 ETM<sup>+</sup> satellite images were used. Also, sixty-two (62) vertical electrical soundings (VES) of the Schlumberger configuration and hundred twenty-nine (129) electrical trailing (ET) were performed with a resistivity-meter SYSCAL Pro. Thanks to different treatments applied to satellite images, structural lineaments have been extracted whose main directions are N00-10 (N-S), N90-100 (E-W), N70-80 and N100-110. The interpretation of electrical trailing data made it possible to validate the lineament map by the determination of the fracturing directions. Those are NW-SE, N-S, NE-SW and to some extent E-W. The result of the electrical sounding data showed the presence of three geoelectric layers comprising firstly cuirass and lateritic clays and possibly topsoil, secondly sands and/or clay sandstone and firdly either granites or sandstones or schists. The second geoelectrical layer corresponds to the potential aquifer because of its relatively low electrical resistivity values (13 ¦¸¡¤m to 180 or 240 ¦¸¡¤m). In addition, drillings established at the right of these geological structures provided an average water yield of 4.22 m<sup>3</sup>¡¤h<sup>-1</sup>, sufficient for rural hydraulic. Moreover, these results made it possible to obtain a correlation between drilling productivity and the major directions of fracturing. This indicates that the most productive directions are in order of importance NE-SW, NW-SE, E-W and finally N-S. They also correspond to the major fracturing directions of Tanda region. These results are encouraging and contribute to a better implementation of future drilling in this region.
%K Multidisciplinary
%K Satellite Images
%K Resistivity Method
%K Electrical Soundings
%K Electrical Trailing
%K Aquifers
%K Fractures
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=94836