00:10 Feb 23, 2018 |
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Spanish to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / Groundwater study | |||||||
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4 | which discharges as seepage |
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which discharges as seepage Explanation: We have an example of the hydrologic cycle here: Water falls onto the ground as precipitation; some of it infiltrates into the subsurface, now as groundwater; some of the groundwater flows down-gradient as subsurface flow (from higher elevations to lower elevations); at some point, when it reaches the lowland coastal plain or the ocean itself, the water flows out of the subsurface soils back onto the ground surface, as seepage. Under certain circumstances, the seepage flows may get more organized, & form a spring, but normally it will just be expressed as moisture coming out of the soil surface. This is sometimes because it encounters an impermeable surface, such as rock or clay or cemented soils; or it may be because the subsurface flow encounters a saturated zone that can't take any more moisture, so it gets kicked out as seepage. |
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