Groundwater

Water that lies beneath the ground surface, filling in cracks and pores spaces within rock and soil.

Water derived from the atmosphere (e.g. rain, snow, etc.)

Water derived from molton material.

Water trapped in rock pore spaces at time of deposition.

The measure of a material's ability to tansmit a fluid (e.g., water and oil)

A rock of sediment that transmits water easily.

An impervous material that restricts groundwater movement.

The force of attraction that two bodies exert on each other that is proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of he distance from the centers of the two bodies.

The pressure exerted by the weight of the overlaying water.

Few inches/years to hundreds of feet/day (e.g., dyes radioactive tracers and saline solutions)

Rock openings and voids that are filled partly with water and partly with air.

All rock voids and openings are filled with water.

The upper surface of the zone of saturation.

A water table seperated from the main water table by an unsatuated zone.

Water rising in small openings from water table into the zone of saturation.

The flow of water within a channel.

A stream that loses water to the zone of saturation.

A stream that recieves water from the zone of saturation.

A body of water that typically intersects the water table.

A place where water flows naturally out of a rock and onto the land surface.

A wet area, where the water table is at or near the surface.

The water table represents a subdued version of the topography.

A well in which water rises above the aquifer.

Productive wells that penetrate the water table.

The water level before pumping begins.

The distance that water level is lowered during pumping.

The inverted cone-shaped depression, caused by the lowering of water table in the vicinity of the well.

The process by which rocks are dissolved by water.

Usually slow but effective process of weathering and erosion in which rocks are dissolved by water.

The grinding away of rock by friction and impact during transortation.

An underground cavity created by the solution of limestone.

A circular depression on the land surface that forms by the callapse of a cavern.

An icicle-like deposit thats hangs from the ceiling of cavern.

A cone-shaped deposit that grows from the floor of a cavern.

A deposit created with a stalacite and stalagmite join.

Partly hallow, globelike body found in limestone or other cavernous rocks.

Hard, rounded mass that develops when a considerable amount of cementing material precipitates locally in a rock, often around an organic nucleus.

A material formed by the replacement of woody tissue by silicia from groundwater.

Thin, branch-like films of iron and manganese oxide along rock surface (e.g., bedding planes).

Deposits found around the mouths of springs, geysers, etc.

Material (e.g., SIO2 and CaCo3) deposited from groundwater that holds rock particles together.

Hot or thermal springs, a spring with a water tempature warmer than human body tempature.

A type of of hot spring that periodically erupts hot water and stream.

Energy prodeuced by hardnessing natural occuring steam and hot water.