The aquifer which forms the main water supply for the municipalities of Malmö and Lund owes its value to the deposition of coarse sands during the deglaciation of the late Weichselian ice. Spatial statistical analysis based on construction of the variogram has been applied to the hydraulic conductivity of this aquifer. This has identified an anisotropic distribution of the geohydrological properties with the least continuity striking in a north-northwest direction, consistent with the believed flow direction of the Weichselian melt-water streams which deposited the coarse sands. The application of geostatistical estimation (kriging) to model the distribution of hydraulic conductivity within the aquifer has honoured the depositional controls, notably the increased hydraulic conductivity towards the ice-proximal parts of the deposit.
Geographical and Environmental Modelling
Volume 6, 2002 - Issue 2