New England's glacial upland soils provide major groundwater storage reservoir
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 - 09:02
in Earth & Climate
A study of natural groundwater storage reservoirs in New England found that upland aquifer systems dominated by thin deposits of surface till -- a jumbled, unsorted material deposited by glaciers -- make up about 70 percent of the region's active and dynamic storage. This is the first time that the relative role of upland vs. valley groundwater storage has been quantified.