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If you had two watersheds with identical vegetation, geology, topography, and area, but one had thick soils throughout the watershed and the other had thin soil horizons, which watershed would you predict has a longer residence time? Why?

If you had two watersheds with identical vegetation, geology, topography, and area, but one had thick soils throughout the watershed and the other had thin soil horizons, which watershed would you predict has a longer residence time? Why?

Applications and Investigations in Earth Science (9th Edition)
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  1. If you had two watersheds with identical vegetation, geology, topography, and area, but one had thick soils throughout the watershed and the other had thin soil horizons, which watershed would you predict has a longer residence time? Why?
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*The distance that a water molecule must travel from the water table in a recharge area to its point of exit to the surface is called Residence time.

*Here two watersheds with identical vegetation, geology, topography, and area, but one had thick soils throughout the watershed and the other had thin soil horizons.So we can only consider travel time.

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