Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3025-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-3025-2017
Research article
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23 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 23 Jun 2017

Identification of runoff formation with two dyes in a mid-latitude mountain headwater

Lukáš Vlček, Kristýna Falátková, and Philipp Schneider

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The role of mountain headwater area in hydrological cycle was investigated at two opposite hillslopes covered by mineral and organic soils. Similarities and differences in percolation and preferential flow paths between the hillslopes were identified by sprinkling experiments with Brilliant Blue and Fluorescein. The dye solutions infiltrated into the soil and continued either as lateral subsurface pipe flow (organic soil), or percolated vertically towards the bedrock (mineral soil).