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What is Groundwater?What is Groundwater?How Does Groundwater Move?How Does Groundwater Move?
What are Aquifers, Wells, Springs, and Streams?What are Aquifers, Wells, Springs, and Streams?What are the Causes of Groundwater Contamination?What are the Causes of Groundwater Contamination?
How Long Will Groundwater Last?How Long Will Groundwater Last?What Features Can Groundwater Form?What Features Can Groundwater Form?How do Hot Springs and Geysers Form?How do Hot Springs and Geysers Form?
What is Geothermal Energy?What is Geothermal Energy?
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The Water Table Marks theTop of the Saturated Zone
Figure 15.1a
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Perched Water Tables Above Lensesof Less Permeable Shade Within a
Large Body of Sandstone
Figure 15.2
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Movement of Groundwater Beneatha Sloping Water Table in
Uniformly Permeable Rock
Figure 15.3
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Groundwater Moves inResponse to Hydraulic Head
Box 15.1, Figure 1
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Groundwater Flow
Box 15.1, Figure 2
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A Well Must be Installed inan Aquifer to Obtain Water
Figure 15.4
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Wells Can Obtain Some Water FromFractures in Crystalline Rock
Figure 15.5
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Confined and Unconfined Aquifers
Figure 15.6
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Water Table in Wet and Dry Seasons
Figure 15.7
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Pumping Well Lowers the WaterTable into a Cone of Depression
Figure 15.8
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The Dakota Sandstone:A Tilted and Exposed Aquifer
Figure 15.9
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Formation of Springs
Figure 15.12
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Gaining and Losing Streams
Figure 15.13
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The Walkerton Water Tragedy
Box 15.3, Figure 1
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Waste Piled on Land SurfaceCreates Groundwater Mound
Figure 15.15a-b
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Leachate Plume Generatedby Contaminants
Figure 15.15c
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Not All Contaminants MoveWithin the Saturated Zone
Figure 15.16
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Rock Type and Distance ControlPossible Sewage Contamination
of Neighbouring Wells
Figure 15.17
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Groundwater Pollution Problems Caused or Aggravated by Pumping Wells
Figure 15.18
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Extent of Landfilling AlongToronto Harbourfront
Box 15.4, Figure 1
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Historic Landfill Areas inNew York City
Box 15.4, Figure 3
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Legacy of Past Land Uses and Principal Contaminants at Proposed Ataratiri
Residential Development Site
Box 15.4, Figure 4
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Solution of Limestone to Form Caves
Figure 15.20
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Karst Topography Marked by Underground Caves & Sinkholes
Figure 15.23a
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Distribution of Karst Rocks in Canada
Figure 15.23b
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Eruptive History of a Typical Geyser
Figure 15.27
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