Calcium and Magnesium in Groundwater

Lidia Razowska-Jaworek is hydrogeologist and hydrochemist at the Upper Silesian Branch of the Polish Geological Institute-National Research Institute in Sosnowiec, Poland. She graduated from the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland and the University of Keele, UK.She received an award for her doctoral thesis: “Hydrogeochemical changes in the Czestochowa region caused by the flooding of the iron mines” from the International Mine Water Association in the category: Hydrochemistry. She is engaged in a wide range of hydrogeological studies including: regional hydrogeology, aquifer pollution and protection, hydrogeochemical modeling, CO2 storage in geological formations, acid mine waters and mineral waters and is also interested in medical geology. She is a regional editor of the Hydrogeological Map of Poland, author of 33 and co-author of 58 articles and co-author of 6 books and was an editor of the IAH SP volume “Nitrate in Groundwaters”.She was a chairman of the seminar “Calcium and magnesium in groundwater – distribution and significance” in Katowice in 2012, and is author of 3 and co-author of 5 articles on the importance of water chemistry and pollution for human health.

• PrefaceForewordAbout the editorPART 1. Origin and occurrence of calcium and magnesium in groundwaters1 Ca and Mg in loess pore moistureA. Afelt2 The solubility of different carbonate rocks in natural and anthropogenically influenced watersP. Miessner and T.R. Rüde3 Hydrogeochemical distribution of Ca and Mg in groundwater in SerbiaP. Papic, J. Milosavljevic, M. Cuk and R. Petrovic4 Study of Ca and Mg distribution within the aeration and saturation zones of the Upper Jurassic limestone massif of the southern part of the Cracow-Czestochowa Upland (Poland)J. Rózkowski and K. Rózkowski5 Groundwater calcium and magnesium content in various lithological types of aquifers in SloveniaK. Mezga and J. Urbanc6 Ca and Mg in fractured and karstic aquifers of SloveniaT. Verbovšek and T. Kanduc7 Distribution of Ca and Mg in groundwater flow systems in carbonate aquifers in Southern Latium Region (Italy): Implications on drinking water qualityG. Sappa, S. Ergul and F. Ferranti8 The major litho-structural units in selected areas of Northern Nigeria: Some statistics on the distribution of Ca and Mg are appendedH.U. Dibal and U.A. Lar9 Effect of mine waters from coal mines of the Upper Silesian Coal Basin in the content of Ca and Mg in the catchment of the Upper Odra riverI. Pluta and A. GrmelaPART 2 Significance of calcium and magnesium in groundwater for human health10 Health and regulatory aspects of calcium and magnesium in drinking waterF. Kozisek11 Mineral water as a source of healthy mineralsT. Wojtaszek and M. Pieniak12 Mg and Ca in groundwater and the incidence of acute coronary syndrome: Application of a Bayesian spatial method in medical geologyA. Kousa, A.S. Havulinna, N. Puustinen and E. Moltchanova<