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aquifer

permeable rock containing groundwater
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aquifer
T.C. Winter, J.W. Harvey, O.L. Franke, and W.M. Alley · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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aquifer

Summary

aquifer ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,504 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • aquifer is a type of water reservoir[2].
  • aquifer's Commons category is recorded as Aquifers[3].
  • aquifer's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Aquifers[4].
  • aquifer's facet of is recorded as hydrogeology[5].
  • aquifer's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[6].
  • aquifer's topic has template is recorded as Template:Aquifers[7].
  • aquifer's different from is recorded as subterranean river[8].
  • aquifer's exact match is recorded as http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00012408[9].

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Definition and Type

aquifer is a type of water reservoir[2].

Why It Matters

aquifer ranks in the top 1% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,504 views/month).[1] aquifer has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] aquifer is known by 57 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Related Entities

hydrogeology

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Environment Ontology. Retrieved . raw.githubusercontent.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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