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How do rocks store groundwater. Porosity and permeability experiments

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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This document describes a series of experiments that grow student understanding of the concepts on porosity and permeability as it relates to groundwater. Sediments are used to substitute for sedimentary rocks and water movement through different types of sediment is evaluated. The document is split into two sections, background information for teachers and a 3 part experiment with activity sheet for students. The activities are suitable for use with secondary to senior secondary science and geography students.

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Title How do rocks store groundwater. Porosity and permeability experiments
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/258fdaac-be41-406d-867a-631a21cc9736
Contact Point
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Reference Period 03/05/2023
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "How do rocks store groundwater. Porosity and permeability experiments". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/how-do-rocks-store-groundwater-porosity-and-permeability-experiments