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    The Yarkon-Taninim Aquifer, also known as the Western Mountain Aquifer of Israel/Palestine, is the western and larger part of the Mountain Aquifer, which...
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    sand, or silt). Aquifers vary greatly in their characteristics. The study of water flow in aquifers and the characterization of aquifers is called hydrogeology...
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    The Ogallala Aquifer (oh-gə-LAH-lə) is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the...
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  • System Yarkon-Taninim Aquifer, also known as Mountain Aquifer (Israel-Palestine) Adige Valley aquifer (Italy) Alnarpsströmmen (Sweden) Balanegra Aquifer (Spain)...
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    The Edwards Aquifer is one of the most prolific artesian aquifers in the world. Located on the eastern edge of the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of...
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    The Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System (NSAS) is the world's largest known fossil water aquifer system. It is located underground in the Eastern end of the...
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    This is a list of some aquifers in the United States. An aquifer is a geologic formation, a group of formations, or a part of a formation that contains...
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    The Guarani Aquifer, located beneath the surface of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay, is the second largest known aquifer system in the world...
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    Zumpango, Chalco, and Xochimilco). Much of the lake was fed from groundwater aquifers; fresh water poured in from Lake Chalco and Xochimilco's freshwater springs...
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  • Rhine Plain close to the faults. Located below the plain, the Upper Rhine aquifer – one of the largest in Europe – holds an estimated 45,000 km3 (11,000 cu mi)...
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  • The Snake River Aquifer is a large reservoir of groundwater underlying the Snake River Plain in the southern part of the U.S. state of Idaho. Most of...
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    Great Artesian Basin (category Aquifers in Australia)
    rock, which formed a confining layer that trapped water in the sandstone aquifer. The eastern edge of the basin was uplifted when the Great Dividing Range...
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  • The Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer is an aquifer system in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. It covers approximately 3,000 square miles (7,800 km2) and receives...
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  • The Yarragadee Aquifer is a significant freshwater aquifer located in the south west of Western Australia and predominantly beneath the Swan Coastal Plain...
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    Basin Lotikipi Basin Aquifer Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System Middle-East Yarkon-Taninim Aquifer Europe Alnarpsströmmen Schwyll Aquifer Upper Rhine Plain...
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    The Biscayne Aquifer, named after Biscayne Bay, is a surficial aquifer. It is a shallow layer of highly permeable limestone under a portion of South Florida...
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  • The Leederville Aquifer is a significant freshwater aquifer located in the south west of Western Australia and predominantly beneath the Swan Coastal...
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  • Israel's water comes from West Bank aquifers. The Western Aquifer, in Israel called the "Yarkon-Taninim Aquifer", is the largest one, with an annual...
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    The Botany Sands Aquifer is an aquifer that surrounds Botany Bay just south of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. A former main water source for Sydney...
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    The Waiwhetu artesian aquifer, sometimes referred to as the Hutt aquifer, is a pressurized zone of water-retaining sand, gravel and boulders beneath the...
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    Laurentian River System (category Aquifers in Canada)
    Water still flows down this old valley—underground. The source of the aquifer is the Georgian Bay, approximately 200 kilometres (120 mi) away. In 2003...
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  • Bas Saharan Basin (category Aquifers)
    The Bas Saharan Basin (Arabic: حوض الصحراء) is an artesian aquifer system which covers most of the Algerian and Tunisian Sahara and extends to Libya,...
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    Clara valley aquifer is a groundwater aquifer located in the southern San Francisco Bay Area. The geology of the Santa Clara valley aquifer consists of...
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  • and the Negev. The Mountain Aquifer consists of three basins: The Western Aquifer, in Israel called the Yarkon-Taninim Aquifer, is the largest one, with...
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  • The Mahomet Aquifer is the most important aquifer in east-central Illinois. Composed of sand and gravel, it is part of the buried Mahomet Bedrock Valley...
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    Oak Ridges Moraine (category Aquifers in Canada)
    and shrubbery (see ecology). These are also the supply of fresh water to aquifers in the moraine through complex subterranean connections (see hydrology)...
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  • The Sankoty aquifer is an aquifer in the U.S. state of Illinois that provides groundwater to a number of communities in northwestern and central Illinois...
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  • Hamza River (category Aquifers of South America)
    Rio Hamza) is an unofficial name for what seems to be a slowly flowing aquifer in Brazil and Peru, approximately 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) long at a...
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  • San Diego Formation (category Aquifers in California)
    Pliocene times. The formation contains the San Diego Formation Basin, a large aquifer under Imperial Beach, Chula Vista, National City, and southern portions...
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  • 51°29′28″N 3°32′53″W / 51.491°N 3.548°W / 51.491; -3.548 Schwyll Aquifer (pronounced 'Shwill') was historically known as 'the Great Spring of Glamorgan'...
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