Nsimi forest catchment (Cameroon)


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Location:  Nyong river basin, Cameroon

Elevation: 670 - 700 masl

Geology: Crystalline rock basement (granite)

Aquifer type: fractured crystalline-rock aquifer 

Scientific question: "Is it the wetland or the aquiferthat stores the water in tropical head catchment?"

Nsimi is part of M-TROPICS Observatory and OZCAR research infrastructure

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Related publications

Deep groundwater flow as the main pathway for chemical outputs in a small headwater watershed (Mule Hole, South India)


J.C. Maréchal, J. Riotte, C. Lagane, S. Subramanian, C. Kumar, L. Ruiz, S. Audry, M.R.R. Varma, J.J. Braun

Applied Geochemistry, vol. 26, 2011, pp. S94-S96


Hydrological processes of a rainforest headwater swamp from natural chemical tracing in Nsimi watershed, Cameroon


Jean-Christophe Maréchal, Jean-Jacques Braun, Jean Riotte, Jean-Pierre Bedimo Bedimo, Jean-Loup Boeglin

Hydrological Processes, vol. 25, 2011, pp. 2246-2260