The American West is hungry for water, and scientists just found a previously unmapped aquifer three times the size of Lake Mead. The discovery came when researchers, studying drill holes left behind ...
This huge aquifer, stored underneath volcanic rocks deep within the mountains, contains some 19.4 cubic miles of water, or roughly 21,400,000,000,000 gallons, according to a new paper in the ...
Oregon’s Cascade Range mountains were built by volcanoes and ... In other words, the discovery of the aquifer’s size is good and—potentially—bad. The Cascades provide a substantial amount ...
“It is a continental-size lake stored in the rocks at the top of the mountains, like a big water tower,” said Karlstrom, who led the study. “That there are similar large volcanic aquifers ...
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