Artesian water comes from a well tapping a confined aquifer ( an underground layer of rock or sand with water above it .)
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In a confined aquifer, the saturated thickness is determined by the height of the aquifer, " H ", and the pressure head is non-zero everywhere.
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A " confined aquifer " is an aquifer that is overlain by a relatively impermeable layer of rock or substrate such as an aquiclude or aquitard.
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The Great Artesian Basin in central and eastern Australia is one of the largest confined aquifer systems in the world, extending for almost 2 million km 2.
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The Willamette silt act as an impermeable layer to the underlying water storing layers, resulting in the aquifer behaving as a confined aquifer in these regions where it exists.
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The relationship above is for fully penetrating wells in confined aquifers ( the same assumptions used in the Theis solution for determining aquifer characteristics in an aquifer test ).
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Artesian water : This is water from a confined aquifer that has been tapped and in which the water level stands at some height above the top of the aquifer.
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He theorized that the Valley south of Marysville was underlaid at a depth of 40 feet with a thick layer of gravel _ " a confined aquifer " through which water flows easily.
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Semi-confined aquifers with one or more aquitards work as an anisotropic system, even when the separate layers are isotropic, because the compound Kh and Kv values are different ( see hydraulic resistance ).
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The forcing of the spring to the surface can be the result of a confined aquifer in which the recharge area of the spring water table rests at a higher elevation than that of the outlet.
