'Geologic gift': One of world's largest aquifers is buried below Oregon's Cascade Range
Below Mount Jefferson and McKenzie Pass is a massive storehouse of water three times the size of Lake Mead, say Oregon ...
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Giant freshwater aquifer in southern Africa is under threat from mining
Sulfuric acid is typically injected into the aquifer rock that contains the uranium to dissolve it. The mine then pumps out the aquifer water and removes the uranium. The process repeats until ...
The Cascade Mountains Have Been Hiding a Precious Natural Resource. A Research Team Just Found It.
The American West is hungry for water, and scientists just found a previously unmapped aquifer three times the size of Lake Mead. The discovery came when researchers, studying drill holes left behind ...
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‘Huge’ aquifer discovered underneath the Oregon Cascades
University of Oregon scientists and partners published a study on Jan. 13; the study said they found an aquifer running ...
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Massive Aquifer Beneath Oregon’s Cascades Could Be the Largest in the World
Researchers from the University of Oregon and other institutions have identified an aquifer—a layer of water-saturated rock or sediment—beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central ...
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Aquifer beneath Oregon Cascades is far larger than researchers expected
Are mountain range aquifers of this scale common ... It’s a particular type of volcanic rock. Not all volcanic rocks behave this way, it’s a particular kind. But we have a large volume ...
Giant freshwater aquifer in southern Africa is under threat from mining
Sulphuric acid is typically injected into the aquifer rock that contains the uranium to dissolve it. The mine then pumps out the aquifer water and removes the uranium. The process repeats until ...