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单词 aquifer
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aquifern.

/ˈakwɪfə/
Forms: Also aquafer (irregular form).
Etymology: < Latin aqui-, combining form of aqua water + -fer bearing ( < ferre to bear).
Geology.
A water-bearing or aquiferous stratum.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > sedimentary formation > [noun] > stratum > stratum by constitution > water-bearing
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1901 Science 22 Nov. 794/1 The artesian system shows four or five aquifers, or water-bearing strata, more or less completely separated from one another.
1939 Nature 12 Aug. 274/2 The limestones are important aquifers for artesian and subartesian water.
1962 Engineering 9 Mar. 332 The whole system of aquifer storage can be likened to a U-gauge with one open limb and a short closed limb.
1966 Listener 1 Sept. 309/2 There are only two methods of [water] storage: in surface reservoirs and in the aquifers from which we pump a part of our supplies.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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