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artesian leakage
The slow percolation of water from artesian formations into the confining materials of a less permeable but not of a strictly impermeable character. Such percolation causes a reduction in artesian pressure, depending on the relative impermeability of the materials in the confining formations.
- Μέρος του λόγου: noun
- Κλάδος/Τομέας: Mining
- Category: General mining; Mineral mining
- Government Agency: USBM
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