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The distinction between ground water and pore water may not be very logical, but it has the merit of distinguishing the readily-exploitable fresher pore water near the surface from the brackish to salty water in the pore spaces of most sedimentary rocks at greater depth. As always, such distinctions recognize tendencies only, for there are areas (such as the Niger delta; see Dailly, 1976, p. 96, fig. 3) where fresh water is found in sands to depths of two or three kilometres. The distinction is also seen as a distinction between meteoric water and what is called connate, the former being derived ‘recently’ from rainfall, the latter being defined as water that was trapped in the pore spaces when the sediment accumulated
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Chapman, R.E. (1981). Movement of Pore Water, and Abnormally High Pore Pressures. In: Chapman, R.E. (eds) Geology and Water. Developments in Applied Earth Sciences, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8244-4_6
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