diminshes

Updated: May 7, 2025

In certain formations, water diminshes as we descend, and it seems probable that, except in case of caverns and deep fissures, the weight of the superincumbent mineral strata so compresses the underlying ones, at no very great distance below the surface, as to render them impermeable to water and consequently altogether dry.

George P. Marsh - The Earth as Modified by Human Action