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2006-11-05 00:16:06 · 6 answers · asked by dancemoneybling 1 in Environment

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underground water---

Subsurface water contained in the interconnected pores below the water-table of an aquifer is termed 'Groundwater'. Groundwater occurs when water flows through the impermeable surface barriers that lets water to flow through the unsaturated zone and collect in the spaces made by interconnecting pores. The impermeable layer can be of bedrock or that of one rock. Once the water flows down to the saturated zone, it flows from the high water-table point to a lower point, this flow of water occurs due to percolation. Water percolating within the saturated zone may, eventually, flow to streams, rivers or other surface waterbodies.

2006-11-09 00:21:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Underground water is called groundwater.
The main rock units in which significant amounts of groundwater are found are called aquifers.
Groundwater gets there when surface water slowly percolates through rock layers or travels downward through cracks and fissures. Some groundwater is really old, having come from surface water as old as the last ice ages, for instance.
Groundwater comes to the surface naturally in springs or it is pumped out of the aquifers at wells. If you have ever been in a wet cave, you have seen groundwater dripping down from the ceilings of the cave.
Useful site if you want more info: http://water.usgs.gov/ogw/

2006-11-05 01:57:32 · answer #2 · answered by luka d 5 · 0 0

An Aquifer is an underground layer of water bearing rock made out of fabrics that are actually not solidated (gravel, sand, silt, clay, and so on.). Water from an aquifer could be extracted using a nicely. An Aquitard is an impermeable layer of rock that lays adjoining to the aquifer. optimistically this archives facilitates!

2016-12-28 13:31:17 · answer #3 · answered by gerda 4 · 0 0

water

2006-11-05 00:18:43 · answer #4 · answered by arizonaprincess2 5 · 0 0

Aquifer, (for deep underground).

2006-11-05 00:19:39 · answer #5 · answered by charly 3 · 0 0

water table

2006-11-05 00:21:34 · answer #6 · answered by catt913 1 · 0 0

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