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flashing water well mineral water mineral spring seep hot spring geyser aquifer river lake canals and inland waterways Wetland lagoon ocean gulf Bog estuary Swamp

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Pierre Perrault

French hydrologist

Day, Arthur L.

Arthur L. Day

American geophysicist

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Water and its Varying Forms