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Q = -K A (dh/dl)
Q is discharge (gallons/minute or meters cubed/second),
K is material dependant (derived),
A is area (meters or ft square),
dh/dl is distance height over distance lenght (meters or feet) |
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Universal Transverse Mercadur
metric mapping system based on distance from a base location |
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| What are the three most common mapping systems? |
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| UTM, Township Range Section, and Lattitude Longitude |
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| Stereotypic features of till |
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| Stereotypic features of a river deposit |
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| rounded, partly sorted, medium relative size (smaller than till and larger than lacustrine) |
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| A ridge of high land dividing two areas that are drained by different river systems |
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Law of Conservation of Mass;
Hydrologic form |
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| inflow = outflow +/- change in storage |
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| ground water which is relativly active in the hydrologic cycle |
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| water which has been trapped in a geologic unit for a long period of time (geologic time) |
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| "new water"; given off by magma durning volcanic eruptions |
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| What is the difference between magma and lava? |
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| Magma is bellow the earth's surface, lave is magma which has breached the crust |
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| A linear model showing a water source's discharge, "Q", over time. |
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| What is evapotranspiration? |
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| a combined term for evaporation and transpiration; in context, transpiration applies to the hydrologic cycle and the water lost during photosynthesis but water is also lost due to direct evaporation. Calculations of evaporatoin and transpiration are hard to seperate out and thus are ususally lumped together. |
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| unsaturated zone of materials above the water table, capilary fringe takes place here |
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| what which extends up into the vadose zone due to capilary action |
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| blocked from the atmosphere by a confining bed, or aquitard. |
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| a contour line depicting precipitation |
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| the 'water table' of a confined aquifer |
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| a well is considered artesian is the pieziometric surface rises above the top of the aquifer |
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| a measure of the void spaces within a material |
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| rate / ability of movement |
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| What is the formula to determine porosity? |
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| N = 100 Volume voids (Vv) / Volume (V) |
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| principle of superpostion |
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| sedimentary layers are deposited in a time sequence with the oldest on the bottom and youngest on the top |
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| Stereotypic lacustrine deposit |
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| well sorted, fine grained, well bedded |
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| the total energy or force on water; pressure, elevation, and velocity |
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| define hydrostatic pressure |
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| pressure of water on water from overlying water (not usually on rocks or from rocks) |
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| pressure of rocks on rocks from rocks (not ususally on water or from water) |
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| same material throught the aquifer |
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| sligt differences within the aquifer |
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| the properties of the aquifer are the same in any direction |
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| the properties of the aquifer are different in various directions |
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