Spring Horizon
A spring horizon is an impervious layer of rock reaching the surface, along which springs emerge. Since aquifer An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing, permeable rock, rock fractures, or unconsolidated materials ( gravel, sand, or silt). Groundwater from aquifers can be extracted using a water well. Aquifers vary greatly in their characteris ...s and impervious strata often lie on top of one another in horizontal layers, adjacent contact springs often emerge at the same height along a line called the spring horizon.Leser, Hartmut et al. ''Wörterbuch Allgemeine Geographie'', dtv, 14th ed., Mar 2010. . References Springs (hydrology) {{Hydrology-stub ...
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