Physical Geology
Physical Geology
16th Edition
ISBN: 9781259916823
Author: Plummer, Charles C., CARLSON, Diane H., Hammersley, Lisa
Publisher: Mcgraw-hill Education,
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The difference between the quantity of water that would percolate downward to the saturated zone beneath a flat meadow in northern New York and a rocky hillside in southern Nevada. The factors that control the quantity of percolation in the case of flat meadow in northern New York and rocky hillside in southern Nevada.

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The water that precipitates from the atmosphere as rain and snow infiltrates the geosphere and becomes groundwater. The movement of water in the downward direction through rocks and sediments is known as percolation. The water percolates down into the ground through the soil and through the cracks, pores, openings, fractures or voids present in the rock by the pull of gravity. The groundwater moves hundreds of meters vertically downward before rising again to discharge as a spring or seep into the beds of rivers and lakes at the surface.

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