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Full-Text Articles in Environmental Indicators and Impact Assessment

Irrigating With Underground Water, T C. Calder Jan 1971

Irrigating With Underground Water, T C. Calder

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

MANY farmers in South-West areas are looking to irrigation to increase and diversify farm production, particularly on the sandy coastal plain where irrigation in summer is essential for vegetable, fruit and fodder production.


Interbasin Movement Of Ground Water At The Nevada Test Site, Isaac J. Winograd Mar 1962

Interbasin Movement Of Ground Water At The Nevada Test Site, Isaac J. Winograd

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The present paper presents hydraulic evidence for the interbasin circulation of ground water through carbonate rocks of Paleozoic age at the Nevada Test Site. An integral part of this evidence is the discovery that aquifers in alluvium and tuff, formerly thought to be the principal aquifers at the Test Site, are semiperched above a thick tuffaceous aquiclude that separates them from the carbonate rocks.

This paper is based on one of the studies being made by the Geological
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