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How do sediment properties (porosity & permeability) affect how groundwater movement occurs?

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This happens with the weathering and erosion. Here’s a quick breakthrough when you hear the word weather in weathering you’re very quick to think that it’s weather and yes you are correct no weather like rain and waterfalls move rocks and sediments throughout the earth
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Grain size, sorting and shape of particles in sediment or rock can influence how much empty space is available to store water (porosity) and the ability of groundwater to move through the material (permeability). Aquifers are water-bearing formations with good porosity and permeability and are important groundwater resources.

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