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Highly impermeable layers such as compacted clay or shale are known as?
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Highly impermeable layers such as clay or shale are referred to as an aquitard. While permeable sand and limestone that can transmitt large amounts of water to a well are referred to as an aquifer.
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What is the impermeable rock on top of a reservoir?
This is known as a cap rock.
What are missing rock layers known as?
Unconformities. =)
Gaps in rock layers that develop when agents of erosion remove existing rock layers?
Gaps in rock layers that develop when agents of erosion remove existing rock layers are known as unconformities.
What are 3 horizons of soil layers?
Soil layers are also known as soil horizons. The 3 layers are Horizon A, B, and C. Sometimes there can be more, depending on the location.
What clouds extend through all layers?
The clouds that are known to extend through all the layers are the cumulonimbus clouds. They can do this because they are stacked vertically.
What is the impermeable rock on top of a reservoir?
This is known as a cap rock.
How many layers does Mercury have?
Jupiter has 3 layers of clouds.
What is the buckling of rock layers known as?
The buckling of rock layers is known as folding. Please see the related link.
What kind of rock is formed by compression of successive layers of soil?
Sedimentary rocks are created when layers of debris are compacted and cemented together. These types of rocks are also known as secondary rocks because they often result from fragments of other rocks being cemented together. The type of sedimentary rock you seem to be asking about is organic. Organic sedimentary rock is formed when the sedimentary debris is compiled through organic processes. For example rocks forming as succesive layers of substrate pile onto one another and compact over time.
Layers of rock that bend can produce a downward fold known as what?
...known as syncline
What does highly respected mean?
highly respected means to be well known
The layers that compose a mature soil are known as?
strata
What are missing rock layers known as?
Unconformities. =)
Gaps in rock layers that develop when agents of erosion remove existing rock layers?
Gaps in rock layers that develop when agents of erosion remove existing rock layers are known as unconformities.
What are 3 horizons of soil layers?
Soil layers are also known as soil horizons. The 3 layers are Horizon A, B, and C. Sometimes there can be more, depending on the location.
What kinds of rocks are simular to layers of cake?
A rock composed of compressed layers (sometimes resembling a cake) are known as sedimentary.
What cloud form in layers?
Clouds that form in flat layers are known as Stratus clouds, from the Latin word strato, meaning" spread out."
