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What is the layer of rock and soil that groundwater flows through called?
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∙ 12y ago
Aquifer.
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∙ 12y agoAquifer
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What is the top layer of groundwater called?
tabel
What forms when lava flows vertically through a layer of rock?
dike
Where does groundwater collect?
Groundwater is stored in, and moves slowly through, moderately to highly permeable rocks called aquifers. The word aquifer comes from the two Latin words, aqua, or water, and ferre, to bear or carry. Aquifers literally carry water underground. An aquifer may be a layer of gravel or sand, a layer of sandstone or cavernous limestone, a rubbly top or base of lava flows, or even a large body of massive rock, such as fractured granite, that has sizable cracks and fissures. In terms of storage at any one instant in time, groundwater is the largest single supply of fresh water available for use by humans.
What is the layer of the earth that is composed of rock yet flows due to extreme heat and pressure called?
mantel
What is a layer of rock that does not allow water to flow through called?
the impermeable layer
What is the top layer of groundwater called?
tabel
An underground layer of permeable material that contains groundwater is called?
aquifer
An underground layer of permeable material that contains groundwater is called aan?
It is called an aquifer.
What is formed when groundwater pool between a permeable layer and impermeable layer?
An aquifer forms when groundwater pools between a permeable layer and an impermeable layer.
What is formed when groundwater pool between a permeable layer and an impermeable layer?
An aquifer forms when groundwater pools between a permeable layer and an impermeable layer.
What forms when lava flows vertically through a layer of rock?
dike
What is the top of the groundwater layer?
tabel
What layer of soil is groundwater located?
Groundwater is located in aquifers which are layers of rocks underground that have pores that fill with water that comes from the above layer called the water table or phreatic surface. Further below the water table, where the pores are filled with water, is called the phreatic zone.
Where does groundwater collect?
Groundwater is stored in, and moves slowly through, moderately to highly permeable rocks called aquifers. The word aquifer comes from the two Latin words, aqua, or water, and ferre, to bear or carry. Aquifers literally carry water underground. An aquifer may be a layer of gravel or sand, a layer of sandstone or cavernous limestone, a rubbly top or base of lava flows, or even a large body of massive rock, such as fractured granite, that has sizable cracks and fissures. In terms of storage at any one instant in time, groundwater is the largest single supply of fresh water available for use by humans.
What is the top of a groundwater layer?
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When runoff from rainfall flows in a thin layer over the land it is called .?
sheet erosion
What is water trapped under ground called?
They are called groundwater. Far as I know, there is no specific name separating ground water in shallow water table and the ground water in confined aquifer. So you might have to called by the full description "groundwater in confined aquifer layer". Aquifer is the specifics name for porous rock and earth media in the question.
