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Clay confines an aquifer beneath it rather than supplying water itself because clay

  • A.neither stores nor transmits any water at all
  • B.stores and transmits water as freely as sand does
  • C.stores water but will not transmit it appreciably
  • D.transmits water freely but stores almost none of it

Answer: C

Holding a great deal of water yet passing almost none is precisely what makes a formation an aquiclude. An aquifuge such as unfractured granite neither holds nor transmits, which is a materially different thing in a water balance.

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