groundwater

CEFRC1

/ɡrˈaʊˌndwɑtər/

noun

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01
noun
Water held under the ground in soil or rock.
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noun
Extra detail
Water that exists beneath the earth's surface in underground streams and aquifers.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Research has shown bone apatite to undergo chemical exchange with carbonates in either vadose water or groundwater.

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Research has shown bone apatite to undergo chemical exchange with carbonates in either vadose water or groundwater.
2003, B. B. Huckell, C. Vance Haynes, “The Ventana Complex: New Dates and New Ideas on Its Place in Early Holocene Western Prehistory”, in American Antiquity, volume 68, number 2,...
The pH in water of the hillside soils varied between 3.1 and 6.1 with a mean of 4.2. The pattern of pH variation is complex and does not clearly relate either to cultivation or occupation. The most consistent, though weak, correlation appears to be between higher pH and flushes or bogs, which indicates that the local groundwaters are comparatively basic.
1995, Olwyn Owen, Christopher Lowe, Kebister: The Four-thousand-year-old Story, page 45

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