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Preferred term

coastal aquifer

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coastal aquifer

Definition

[Miguel Rangel Medina] A coastal aquifer is a hydrogeological unit whose basic characteristic is that one of its geographiclimits is the sea or the coastline. In this sense, the unit is generally understood as representingthe water discharge from a continental hydrologic basin. This type of aquifer is highly sensitive togroundwater extraction by wells, since unlike a continental aquifer where over-exploitation iscompensated by taking water from storage, coastal aquifers allow the entrance of sea waterinstead...

Broader concept

deprecated concept

Entry terms

coastal aquifers

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MS Academic Keywords

Creator

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-3997

URI

http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa0233

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Created 8/3/16, last modified 3/21/22

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