A spring horizon is an
impervious layer of rock reaching the surface, along which
spring
Spring(s) may refer to:
Common uses
* Spring (season)
Spring, also known as springtime, is one of the four temperate seasons, succeeding winter and preceding summer. There are various technical definitions of spring, but local usage of ...
s 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)
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