Articles | Volume 382
https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-382-387-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/piahs-382-387-2020
Pre-conference publication
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22 Apr 2020
Pre-conference publication |  | 22 Apr 2020

Experimental study on mechanism for pumping-induced land subsidence

Yun Zhang, Guofeng He, Jichun Wu, Zhiduo Zhu, Xuexin Yan, and Tianliang Yang

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Short summary
Groundwater pumping can cause severe land subsidence and decrease ground surface level. A physical model test were conducted to mimic this process. An interesting phenomenon is that, due to their low permeability, aquitard units may expand in a period when groundwater is withdrawn from the neighboring aquifer units, and they may compact when groundwater is recharged into the neighbor aquifer units.