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Not all aquifers are artesian (i.e., water table aquifers occur where the groundwater level at the top of the aquifer is at equilibrium with atmospheric pressure). Aquifers recharge when the water table at its recharge zone is at a higher
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Federal Water Resources Assistance Program (Australia); New South Wales. Department of Water Resources. Technical Services Division; Australian Water Resources Council. Interstate Working Group on the Great Artesian Basin (1990),
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Specification for construction, reconditioning or plugging of bores tapping recognised aquifers of the Great Artesian Basin in New South Wales
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aquifers can also be artesian if they are under sufficient pressure from the surrounding rocks, similar to how many newly tapped
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to the surface without pumping because it is under pressure within a body of rock and/or sediment known as an
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Artesian bores of South Australia : an annotated photographic record, 1939-1948
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subtitled "Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages". Harper Perennial, 1995
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The first mechanically accurate explanation for artesian wells was given by
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rock or clay, which apply positive pressure to the water, it is known as an
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Video of an artesian aquifer releasing water under its own pressure
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Confined aquifer containing groundwater under positive pressure
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Index

Great Artesian Basin

Aquifer

strata


Seabees
Helmand Province
well
groundwater
aquifer
impermeable
hydrostatic equilibrium
Fossil water
oil wells

Alastaro
elevation
Al-Biruni
Artois
France
Carthusian
Fluid mechanics
Great Artesian Basin
Hydrogeology
Qanat
List of artesian wells in the United States
Drilled wells

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