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calculated by Darcy’s law
- In Darcy’s law
…Henri Darcy that governs the flow of groundwater through granular media or the flow of other fluids through permeable material, such as petroleum through sandstone or limestone. As the basic relationship from which many sophisticated theoretical and practical derivations have been devised, it has become the foundation for quantitative work…
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hydrosphere
- In hydrosphere: Groundwaters and river runoff
Groundwater flow provides the base flow component of streams that sustains their flow between storms. The “flashy” response of streamflow to individual precipitation events may be ascribed to either subsurface storm flow or overland flow. Under intense rainfall events during which the surface soil layer…
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