The configuration of a confined aquifer layer changes its groundwater storage capacity.
Is it true that the configuration of a confined aquifer layer changes its groundwater storage capacity?
Yes. The configuration and mechanical properties of a confined aquifer layer, including its compressibility and structural characteristics, directly determine its groundwater storage capacity.
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The claim is specific and empirical, dealing with hydrogeology and the physical controls on confined aquifer storage capacity. Multiple papers (e.g., 3, 5, 6, 11) directly discuss how aquifer properties, structural configurations, gas exsolution, and mechanical deformation control and change specific storage and storage coefficients in confined aquifers. Therefore, the evidence clearly supports the claim, and no papers refute it.
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Yager, R. M. & Fountain, J. C. (2001). Effect of Natural Gas Exsolution on Specific Storage in a Confined Aquifer Undergoing Water Level Decline. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-6584.2001.tb02340.x
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Castellazzi, P., Ransley, T., McPherson, A., Slatter, E., Frost, A., Shokri, A., Wallace, L., Crosbie, R., Janardhanan, S., Kilgour, P., Raiber, M., Vizy, J., & Rollet, N. (2024). Assessing Groundwater Storage Change in the Great Artesian Basin Using GRACE and Groundwater Budgets. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR037334
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Ghobadi‐Far, K., Werth, S., Shirzaei, M., & Bürgmann, R. (2023). Spatiotemporal Groundwater Storage Dynamics and Aquifer Mechanical Properties in the Santa Clara Valley Inferred From InSAR Deformation Over 2017–2022. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL105157
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Vittecoq, B., Burtin, A., & Fortin, J. (2025). Correlating Groundwater Level Fluctuations of a Fractured Confined Aquifer With Relative Variations in Seismic Velocity: A Way to Estimate the Groundwater Storage. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024gl110808
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The claim is specific and empirical, dealing with hydrogeology and the physical controls on confined aquifer storage capacity. Multiple papers (e.g., 3, 5, 6, 11) directly discuss how aquifer properties, structural configurations, gas exsolution, and mechanical deformation control and change specific storage and storage coefficients in confined aquifers. Therefore, the evidence clearly supports the claim, and no papers refute it.
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