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Confined Aquifers

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The top and bottom of a homogeneous aquifer are overlain and underlain by aquicludes, respectively (Fig. 1.1). In the course of testing, the groundwater level never drops below the aquifer top. Aquifer thickness is constant (except for the case considered in Sect. 1.4).

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  1. The Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Environmental Geology, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Leonid N. Sindalovskiy

  2. St. Petersburg State University, Institute of Earth Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Leonid N. Sindalovskiy

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Sindalovskiy, L.N. (2017). Confined Aquifers. In: Aquifer Test Solutions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43409-4_1

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