What's Under the Water Table?

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Underneath the Water Table Is the Saturated Zone Saturated Zone the Phreatic Zone, or Zone of Saturation, Is the Part of an Aquifer, Below the Water Table, in...

What's Under the Water Table?

Underneath the water table is the saturated zone

saturated zone
The phreatic zone, or zone of saturation, is the part of an aquifer, below the water table, in which relatively all pores and fractures are saturated with water. ... The phreatic zone size, color, and depth may fluctuate with changes of season, and during wet and dry periods.
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, where water fills all spaces between sediments. The saturated zone is bounded at the bottom by impenetrable rock. The shape and height of the water table is influenced by the land surface that lies above it; it curves up under hills and drops under valleys.

Is a spring below the water table?

What is a spring? A spring is a water resource formed when the side of a hill, a valley bottom or other excavation intersects a flowing body of groundwater at or below the local water table, below which the subsurface material is saturated with water. ... Springs are not limited to the Earth's surface, though.

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