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aquifer
  1. An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Once complete the aquifer will be able to supply water to various dams if there is a need.”
      “Water enters the aquifer system as it drains into cracks and crevasses in the aquifer recharge zone.”
      “Therefore, what happens to groundwater at one spot can easily affect the aquifer at another.”
aquiclude
  1. (geology) A solid, impermeable area underlying or overlying an aquifer.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Among the strata, there are two confined aquifers, between which lies an aquiclude that is partially missing.”
      “Water table in the area lies below the top aquiclude and hence developed a favorable confined condition for the main aquifer.”
      “They form more or less continuous aquiclude units permitting only limited and mainly vertical groundwater flow.”
aquitard
  1. (geology) A semipermeable layer along an aquifer.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The glacial deposits act as an aquitard potentially affording protection from surface-derived, mainly agricultural contaminants.”
      “The AA method overestimates the mass transported into the upper aquitard when an upward advection exists in the upper aquitard.”
      “Recharge areas are shown in the aquitard layer to assist the discussion.”
aquafer
  1. Alternative form of aquifer
  2. Examples:
    1. “Each of the major forests takes advantage of specific conditions: soils, macro and micro climates, species present and underground aquafer characteristics.”
      “But as the area grew, Tucson, mining companies and other users diverted water out of the river and the underground aquafer.”
aquifuge
  1. (geology) An aquiclude.
  2. Synonyms:
aquicludes
aquifuges
aquitards
  1. plural of aquitard
  2. Examples:
    1. “Confining units are further subdivided by some workers into aquicludes and aquitards.”
      “Ground water tends to flow through aquifers constrained by layers of less-permeable rock called aquitards.”
      “During this project, one of the author's responsibilities was to determine the effective porosity in the aquifers and aquitards.”
aquifers
  1. plural of aquifer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Shortages have become endemic to many regions, as record drought and population sprawl sap rivers and aquifers.”
      “Dissimilatory metal-reducing bacteria, which are ubiquitous in soils and aquifers, couple.”
      “The potable nature of available drinking water is affected as the sweet water aquifers are destroyed by quarrying.”
aquafers
  1. plural of aquafer
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