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In the News (Mon 28 May 12)

  
  Venice
The Venetian Republic was a major sea power and a staging area for the Crusades, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially the spice trade) and art in the Renaissance.
During the 20th century, when many artesian wells were sunk into the periphery of the lagoon to draw water for local industry, Venice began to subside.
It was realised that extraction of the aquifer was the cause.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/v/ve/venice.html   (3316 words)

  
 Nebraska Real Estate License Professor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Most streams in the Sand Hills are fed by springs or artesian wells and have little seasonal fluctuation.
Well irrigation first became important in the late 1930s, but the number of wells increased sharply in the 1950s and 1970s.
In the mid-1990s there were more than 60,000 irrigation wells in the state, with the greatest concentrations found in the central and lower Platte valleys, in south central and southwestern Nebraska, and in much of the north central part of the state.
www.licenseprofessor.com /Nebraska_Real_Estate_Exam/Nebraska_people.asp   (2378 words)

  
 Miracles of the Qur'an - Harun Yahya
According to scientists, the teleportation of atoms and molecules, as well as larger bodies, may become possible in the near future.
The fact that artesian wells are drilled in rocky areas runs parallel to the description in the Qur'an.
Surat al-A`raf 160 may therefore be a reference to artesian wells, the first of which was opened in 1126 in the French region of Artois.
www.harunyahya.com /miracles_of_the_quran_p2_01.php   (5802 words)

  
 Monroe Conservation District
In 2003 this effort focused in several areas; dye trace of Wittkop Drain last March, well water testing this past July, and a new karst poster shown at the fair and using GPS technology to identify sinkholes, artesian wells and springs.
Limestone pavements are produced by the removal of surface material, and the vertical fissures along joints are gradually widened and deepened, producing a grooved and jagged terrain.
As it flows along cracks underground, the water continues to widen and deepen the cracks until they become cave systems or underground stream channels into which narrow vertical shafts may open.
www.monroecd.org /karst.html   (1329 words)

  
 Ground-water depletion, USGS water science
If ground-water levels decline too far, then the well owner might have to deepen the well, drill a new well, or, at least, attempt to lower the pump.
If pumps are used to lift the water (as opposed to artesian wells), more energy is required to drive the pump.
The well is used for irrigation and public-supply purposes and offers a good visual representation of long-term ground-water declines due to excessive pumping.
ga.water.usgs.gov /edu/gwdepletion.html   (1462 words)

  
 Abiogenesis and the Origin of Life
It is thought that all land masses were positioned upon aquifers at the beginning of creation which supplied free-flowing rivers before the flood.
Although the exact mechanism used may never be known, the event that triggered the breech of the "springs of the great deep" may have been caused or accompanied by other catastrophic processes.
Evidence of meteor and volcanic activity is interspersed throughout the geological column, and it is presumed by some that perhaps a series of meteor impacts fractured the earth's crust causing the preflood aquifers to flow unrestricted.
www.nwcreation.net /geologyflood.html   (1291 words)

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