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What most likely happens if water flows through a permeable soil layer and reaches a clay layer?
It dries up.
It soaks in.
It pools on top of the clay layer.
It flows down through the clay layer.
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It pools on top of the clay layer.
Clay has a much lower permeability than coarse soil, so water can't pass easily and accumulates above it (forming a perched water table and often flowing laterally).
Clay has a much lower permeability than coarse soil, so water can't pass easily and accumulates above it (forming a perched water table and often flowing laterally).
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