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| -Confined groundwater builds up high hydrostatic pressure |
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| -Forms when groundwater dissolves the soluble rock layers and they collapse |
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| -Depression in the water table around a well |
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| -Energy produced from Earth's internal heat |
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| -Hot springs which periodically eject hot water and steam with tremendous force |
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| -All subsurface water trapped in pores |
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| -Springs where the water temperate is higher than 37 degrees celcius |
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-Hot water
-Heated by magma or Earth's geothermal gradient |
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| -Develops by groundwater erosion |
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| -The capacity to transmit fluids |
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| -Percentage of a material's total volume that is pore space |
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-Depressions in the ground formed by the dissolution of the underlying soluble rocks
-Or collapse of a cave roof |
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| -When percolating water reaches water or an impermeable layer, it flows laterally |
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| -Top of the zone beneath the surface in which the pores are filled with water |
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| -Openings made by digging or drilling down into the zone of saturation |
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| -When water initially infiltrates the ground, most of the pores are filled with air |
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| -Underlying the Zone of Aeration is a zone in which the pores are filled with water |
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