The Cascade Mountains Have Been Hiding a Precious Natural Resource. A Research Team Just Found It.
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 ...
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Massive Aquifer Beneath Oregon’s Cascades Could Be the Largest in the World
While rocks usually get hotter the deeper they are, the presence of underground water can lower temperatures. The team reused the holes to, once again, measure rock temperatures, and consequently ...
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The Cascade Mountains Have Been Hiding a Precious Natural Resource. A Research Team Just Found It.
but while analyzing these long-abandoned drill holes, the scientists noticed that the rocks’ typical temperature gradient was disrupted—a tell-tale sign of water permeating the rock.