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When magma heats underground water the result may be?
When magma comes in contact with underground water, it creates hot springs, or geysers.
Which is not a kind of surface water pond stream aquifer or runoff?
underground aquifers
Why do ice cubes formed from water of a glacier freeze at a high temperature than ice cubes formed from water of an underground aquifer?
Here's a hint: glacier ice comes from precipitation, aquifer water comes from a hole in the ground where minerals are. Ever hear of colligative properties? Specifically, freezing point depression?
Why doesnt water have to be pumped out of an artesian well?
Pressure from underground pushes water up to the surface.
How does gravity effect percolation?
Percolation affects the movement underground because, when the water is passing through it dissolves all salt and minerals.
Are caverns underwater and underground?
Caverns can be under water and underground.
What are caused by underground water?
caverns
There are underground caverns in the Yucatán Peninsula because?
the peninsula is primarily made of limestone, a type of rock that easily dissolves in water. Over time, rainwater seeped through the limestone, creating underground channels and caverns through a process called karstification. This geological process is responsible for the formation of the caverns in the Yucatán Peninsula.
What causes caverns?
Caverns are typically formed through a process known as karstification, where groundwater dissolves soluble rocks like limestone and carbonate rocks over time. This dissolution, along with other factors such as erosion and tectonic forces, can create underground cavities and passageways that eventually turn into caverns.
Do most caverns form above the water table?
No, most caverns form below the water table. Caverns are typically formed by the dissolution of underground limestone or other soluble rocks by water, and this process usually occurs below the water table where the rocks are saturated with water.
What can contain water that is deep underground?
Deep underground, water can be contained in porous rock formations such as aquifers, which are layers of rock that can hold and transmit water. Another way water can be contained underground is in underground water reservoirs or natural underground chambers created by geologic processes like caves or caverns.
Caverns are usually found in this type of rock.?
limestone
How does acid in groundwater form caves or caverns?
Acidic groundwater can dissolve limestone or other soluble rocks over time, creating passages and cavities underground. Through a process known as chemical weathering, carbonic acid in the water reacts with the minerals in the rock, slowly eroding and forming caves and caverns. Over millions of years, this ongoing process can create complex underground networks of caves.
What cuvses caves caverns and sink holes?
Caves, caverns, and sinkholes are typically formed by the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, or gypsum by water. Over time, water erodes and dissolves the rock, creating underground cavities and passages. Eventually, these cavities can collapse or become exposed at the surface, forming caves, caverns, and sinkholes.
Underground caverns are characterized by formations made of?
Underground caverns are characterized by formations made of minerals such as stalactites, stalagmites, and columns. These structures are created by the slow deposition of minerals carried by water dripping or flowing through the cave.
When ground water enters underground fractured or caverns in hot igneous rocks where it is heated to boiling temperatures what feature can form?
Caves
What process is sinkholes and caverns created?
Sinkholes and caverns are created through a process called karstification, which occurs when acidic water dissolves underlying limestone or other soluble rock formations. Over time, this dissolution creates cavities underground which can eventually collapse, forming sinkholes. Caverns are another type of underground cavity that form when water repeatedly dissolves and erodes the rock, creating larger open spaces.
