While studying the volcanic landscape of the Cascade Range north of the California border, Oregon scientists recently discovered something they did not expect: an aquifer containing much more ...

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 ...

Oregon’s Cascade Range is not just a scenic landscape of volcanic peaks – it also hides a massive underground aquifer filled with water. Scientists from the University of Oregon and their ...

The combined extraction of oil and gas, uranium leach mining and rare earth heavy metal mining could contaminate the aquifer. Each licence is different and is determined by the country issuing it.

An enormous water reservoir — likely the largest aquifer of its kind in on Earth — sits inside the volcanic rocks of the Oregon Cascades, scientists have revealed. A hidden reservoir of ...

This huge aquifer, stored underneath volcanic rocks deep within the mountains, contains some 19.4 cubic miles of water, or roughly 21,400,000,000,000 gallons, according to a new paper in the ...

Researchers from the University of Oregon and other institutions have identified an aquifer—a layer of water-saturated rock or sediment—beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central ...

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EUGENE, Ore. – It turns out there’s a massive underground aquifer at the crest of the central Oregon Cascade mountains, according to a group of researchers at the University of Oregon. U of O ...

But the discovery of this underground aquifer’s size was a surprise. “We initially set out to better understand how the Cascade landscape has evolved over time, and how water moves through it ...

Credit: Benjamin Nash Researchers have discovered an underground aquifer in Oregon’s Cascade Range is significantly larger than previously thought — three times the size of Lake Mead. This vast water ...