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How to use aquifer in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Aquifer means an underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel. Example: “The water in the well came from an aquifer.”

Examples of aquifer by meaning

nounAn underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel.

  • The water in the well came from an aquifer.
  • An aquifer is rock or sediment that holds groundwater – rain that is held below the surface of the soil and collected in empty spaces underground.2023 August 16, Helena Horton, “United Utilities fined £800,000 for taking 22bn litres of water from aquifer”, in The Guardian

More sentences with aquifer

  • The pollutant creates a contaminant plume within an aquifer.From the entry plume
  • The shallow aquifer water in the areas of Macun, Wangfeng, and Hanwang must be intensively treated before utilization due to contamination.2018 March, “Evaluation of hierarchically weighted principal component analysis for water quality management at Jiaozuo mine”, in…. From the entry Macun
  • In highly karstified aquifers, however, the contaminant transport may depend primarily on the karst conduit network rather than matrix hydraulic conductivity.2015 October 1, “Equivalent Porous Media (EPM) Simulation of Groundwater Hydraulics and Contaminant Transport in Karst Aquifers”, in PLOS…. From the entry karstify
  • Most hardrock wells are located at high elevation, where suitable basin-fill aquifers are not available for water supply.2009, Graham E. Fogg, Investigation of Groundwater Flow in Foothill and Mountain Regions Using Heat Flow Measurements, page 19. From the entry hardrock
  • Other countries, like Yemen, India, Mexico and the United States, have aquifers that are being drained to dangerously low levels.2007 September 28, Jim Yardley, “Beneath Booming Cities, China’s Future Is Drying Up”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry North China Plain
  • Maine has only 1.3 million people but at least 25 trillion gallons of drinkable water in its lakes and aquifers.2005 December 12, Jyoti Thottham, “War on the Water Front”, in Time. From the entry cold cash
  • Instantaneous discharge from aquifer storage does not occur, but storativity does approach a constant value with increasing pumping time.2001, Michael Kasenow, Applied Ground-water Hydrology and Well Hydraulics, page 384. From the entry pumping time
  • The river-bed dolines are visible every year in the September to November period, in relation with the minimum aquifer level in the gypsa after the summer drought.1988, Karst Hydrogeology and Karst Environment Protection: Proceedings of the 21st Congress of the International Association of…. From the entry gypsa
  • A comparison of Silurian dolomite aquifer water-level hydrographs and pumpage graphs indicates that in general water-level decline is directly proportional to pumpage and suggests that recharge balances discharge.1962, Arthur John Zeizel, Ground-water resources of Du Page County, Illinois. From the entry hydrograph

Meaning of aquifer

  1. noun An underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel.

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Questions about aquifer in a sentence

How do you use aquifer in a sentence?
Aquifer is used as a noun. For example: “The water in the well came from an aquifer.”
What is a short sentence with aquifer?
“The pollutant creates a contaminant plume within an aquifer.”
What does aquifer mean?
Aquifer means an underground layer of water-bearing porous stone, earth, or gravel.

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