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| Total plan of movement, exchange, and storage of the earth’s free water in gaseous state, liquid state and solid state |
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| Upper boundary surface of the saturated zone, the upper limit of the ground water body |
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| Rock mass or layer that readily transmits and holds ground water |
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| Rock mass or layer that impedes or prevent the movement of ground water |
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| Zone beneath the land surface in which all pores of the bedrock or regolith are filled with ground water |
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| Subsurface water zone in which pores are not fully saturated, except at times when infiltration is very rapid; lies above the saturated zone |
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| Difference in height between base of cone of depression and original water table surface |
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| Conical configuration of the lowered water table around a well from which water is being rapidly withdrawn |
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| Limestone towers, from 30 to 200 m in height with nearly vertical walls and gently domed or serrated summits |
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| Volume of flow moving through a given cross section of a stream in a given unit of time |
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| Total land surface occupied by a drainage system, bounded by a drainage divide or watershed |
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