GEOL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Aquifer, Subsidence, Love Canal
21 Sep 2020
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Water flowing across land surfaces that ends up in a body of water. Water soaks into ground surface through sediments/soils. Amount of open space you have in area; measured as a % Pores small but total volume is huge. Water stored in cracks on rocks (joints and fault lines) Measures how easy it is for water to flow through material. Upper surface of the zone of saturation. Any layer that produces a usable supply of water. Recovered from wells (bottom of well in saturated zone) Nothing above aquifer messes up water flow (everything = Aquitard is above aquifer hard to refill aquifer. A well created by drilling a hole into a confined aquifer run. Drill at bottom of hill by pressure. An impervious layer causes 2 water tables (main and. Spring fed streams = sign of this aquifer. Amount of water you"re putting back into aquifer. How much water you"re pumping out of/losing from aquifer.
