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* Once this water enters the dolomite which overlays the area, it could also detrimentally affect its aquiferous capacity and have significant environmental consequences, such as the development of sinkholes.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

In the presence of the terrible inundation of the gallery of Airolo and the falling of aquiferous rocks, creating in the subterranean work so desperate a situation that a large number of very experienced engineers almost advised the abandonment of the works, Favre remained impassive.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various

The ground that was to support this chimney consisted of very aquiferous, cracked beds of marl, disintegrated by infiltrations of water from the distillery, and alternating with strata of clay.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various

But although such is likely enough to be the case, we do not know at present that the aquiferous chambers in any of the last named mollusks attain an extension similar to that which obtains in Nautilus.

Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

The rudimentary renal organs of the Ascidian are developed in the walls of the cavity in question; and an aquiferous chamber of smaller dimensions has the same relation to the kidney in Lamellibranchiata -- in

Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

One is naturally led to seek among other mollusks for a structure analogous to the vast posterior aquiferous chamber of the Nautilus; and it appears to me that something quite similar is offered by the

Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Various

The aquiferous tubes specified above open into this canal.

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885

While boring, to obtain some potash salts, through an aquiferous stratum, a spring was tapped, which poured an immense quantity of water into the lower galleries.

The Mines and its Wonders William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The aquiferous tubes specified above open into this canal.

Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840