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Since 2002, the China Geological Survey has successively organized and implemented hydrogeological survey and groundwater exploration in water deficient areas, such as severe water shortage areas in west China, Wumeng Mountain area, Yimeng mountain area and red bed area in southern Jiangxi, obtained a large number of exploration data conducive to promoting discipline development, and summarized the law of water abundance. In recent decades, water prospecting and well drilling in bedrock mountainous areas serving poverty alleviation have not been systematically summarized based on water storage structures and their attributes. This paper takes the water storage structure as the theoretical guidance, considers geomorphic catchment, lithological water accumulation, structural water control and other control factors, and takes structure as the main control factor. The factors such as topography, formation lithology, vegetation development and actual value of development and utilization are systematically summarized and water storage structures are divided into 8 types, further divided into 20 types, and more into 35 types, such as the horizontal rock stratum, monocline formation, fold, fault, contact zone, weathered crust, composite and cave reservoir. The common characteristics of different scales and types of water storage structures are analyzed and summarized with reference to and in combination with the neotectonic water control theory and groundwater system theory. From the aspects of spatial combination characteristics of water storage structure, boundary hydrogeological properties, hydrodynamic conditions, scale effect, symbiotic characteristics of water control and practical value of development and utilization, this paper puts forward the correlation between the lithology and geological structure, the relativity of permeability and water separation, the balance between catchment and water storage, the unity of scale and system, the inheritance of formation and transformation and the matching of scale and purpose. The research results refine and improve the classification of groundwater storage structure types in bedrock mountain areas with water shortage, summarize the attribute characteristics of water storage structure, deepen the understanding of the concept and connotation of water storage structure, not only further promote the research of hydrogeology in bedrock mountain areas, but also provide references for water prospecting and well locating in water shortage areas, and guide the sustainable utilization of water resources in water shortage areas.

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The Wumeng Mountain Contiguous Zone in China always suffers from deficiency of groundwater resources.The Zhaotong area of Yunnan Provience belongs to the Wumeng Mountain area, which was the key area.We carried out geological survey, spring flow statistics and water quality evaluation in karst stratum.The strip karst area, which always located in ridge-valley area, with many target aquifers, karst shallow.Groundwater was concentrated in the core of anticlinoria and both wings, the core of syncline and fault zone.The buried karst water mainly concentrated in the paleo-karst stratum in Zhaolu fault basin, and covered below Tertiary system.Most chemical type of groundwater was determined as HCO3 and HCO3·SO4 type.The strip and buried karst water account for 96.73% and 92.93% respectively.The comprehensive water quality evaluation results of 80.84% simple analysis and 64.41% total analysis were classified as Ⅰ-Ⅲ.We suggest that large flow springs more than 50 L/s should be extracted, diverted and stored for winter use.Combined with geophysical exploration and drilling verification, the target aquifer was more successfully found in water-rich section of strip and shallow buried karst areas.Firstly, the high-density electrical method and combined profile method were conducted to find out the karst fracture zone and fault.Then, the IP sounding was set to explore the depth of the aquifer with high polarizability.Finally, the water supply segment and water inflow were determined by comprehensive logging and drilling.The rate of successfully extracting water was 86.67%.Then, we could recommend the well location.

In order to solve the problem of groundwater exploration in the outcropped granite area in the western area of Henan Province, this paper took the Heyu outcropping area of rock mass as the research area, and established the exploration route of the deep groundwater in the granite area. On the basis of hydro-geological conditions, guided by the theory of water storage structure and aimed at deep structural fissure water, it used comprehensive geophysical methods to evaluate groundwater richness, such as TEM and IP sounding. Rapid Location of deep fracture by TEM, evaluated the water-rich characteristics of faults by multi-parameter of IP sounding, such as apparent resistivity, apparent polarizability, half time and attenuation parameters. The exploration route of deep groundwater in granite area summarized has an effective guiding significance for groundwater exploration in the similar intrusive rock outcropping areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]