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| the water that lies beneath the ground surface, filling the pore space between grains in bodies of sediment and clastic sedimentary rock, and filling cracks and crevices in all types of rock. |
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the percentage of rock or sediment that consists of voids or openings
a measurement of a rock's ability to hold water.
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the capacity of a rock to transmit a fluid such as water or petroleum through pores and fractures.
ease of water to flow |
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| the subsurface zone in which all rock openings are filled with water |
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| water level inside the well that marks the upper surface of the saturated zone |
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| above the water table where not all the rock openings are filled with water. |
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| the top of a body of ground water separated from the main water table beneath it by a zone that is not saturated. |
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| a body of saturated rock or sediment through which water can move easily. |
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| has a water table because it is only partly filled with water. |
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| completely filled with water under pressure and is usually separated from the surface by a relatively impermeable confining bed, or aquitard, such as shale. |
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| addition of new water to the saturated zone |
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| water is pumped from a well, the water table is typically drawn down around the well into a depression shaped like an inverted cone. |
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| tends to change the direction of groundwater flow by changing the slope of the water table. |
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| a place where water flows naturally from rock onto the land surface. |
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| they receive water from the saturated zone |
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| they are losing water to the saturated zone. |
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| naturally formed, underground chambers. |
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| deposits of calcite built up in caves by dripping water |
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| icicle like pendants of dripstone hanging form cave ceilings. |
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| cone shaped masses of drip stone formed on cave floors, generally directly below stalactites. |
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| closed depressions found on land surfaces underlain by limestone |
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| an area with many sinkholes and cave systems beneath the surface |
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| develops when porous buried wood is either filled in or replaced by inorganic silica carried in by ground water |
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| partly hollow, globe shaped bodies found in some limestones, and locally in other rocks |
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| springs in which the water is warmer than human body temp |
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| equal to elevation of drop plus water pressure of drop on the drop |
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| difference in head between two points divided by the distance between the two points. |
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