AQUIFER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aquifer mean? 

• AQUIFER (noun)
  The noun AQUIFER has 1 sense:

1. underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc

  Familiarity information: AQUIFER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AQUIFER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("aquifer" is a kind of...):

formation; geological formation ((geology) the geological features of the earth)

Derivation:

aquiferous (of or relating to an aquifer)

 Context examples 

Easter Island does not have streams that run nonstop but it does have an aquifer that produces freshwater seeps of brackish but drinkable water during low tide.

(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)

Though fossil waters—common in wells deeper than 250 metres—are found in major aquifers, their global extent and depth are not clearly understood.

(Modern pollutants can reach deep fossil aquifers, SciDev.Net)

This is especially a problem in Bangladesh, where it is estimated that groundwater pumped from shallow aquifers for irrigation adds one million kilograms of arsenic per year to arable soil.

(Parboiling husked rice reduces arsenic content, SciDev.Net)

A majority of the carbon is being degraded in these aquifers, especially since the entire ocean circulates through them every few tens of thousands of years.

(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)

The new study suggests that elevation is important because Titan's liquid bodies appear to be connected under the surface in something akin to an aquifer system at Earth.

(Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has 'Sea Level' Like Earth, NASA)

An airborne electromagnetic (AEM) sensor, called SkyTEM, mounted to the helicopter, allowed the team to discover that brines—salty water—form extensive aquifers below glaciers, lakes and within permanently frozen soils.

(Discovered deep under Antarctic surface: Extensive, salty aquifer and potentially vast microbial habitat, NSF)

For centuries, this practice of recharging mountain aquifers has been conducted in several regions of our planet, although the most-documented cases are found in the high-Andean regions of Peru and Ecuador.

(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)

Contemporary pollutants can reach deep wells that tap fossil aquifers, says a study by an international team of researchers.

(Modern pollutants can reach deep fossil aquifers, SciDev.Net)

They drilled a series of wells and collected water samples to identify which microbes call the aquifer home and whether they're capable of consuming carbon.

(Microbes in underground aquifers beneath deep-sea Mid-Atlantic Ridge 'chow down' on carbon, National Science Foundation)

A multidisciplinary group of scientists from the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain (IGME) and the Universities of Granada, Cologne, and Lisbon has demonstrated that the traditional careo underground aquifer recharge system used in Sierra Nevada is the oldest in Europe.

(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)