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8 relations: Aquifer, Capillary fringe, Epiphreatic zone, Infiltration (hydrology), Phreatic, Phreatophyte, Vadose zone, Water table.
Aquifer
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock, rock fractures or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt).
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Capillary fringe
The capillary fringe is the subsurface layer in which groundwater seeps up from a water table by capillary action to fill pores.
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Epiphreatic zone
In a cave system, the epiphreatic zone or the floodwater zone is the zone between vadose zone above it and phreatic zone beneath it.
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Infiltration (hydrology)
Infiltration is the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil.
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Phreatic
Phreatic is a term used in hydrology to refer to aquifers, in speleology to refer to cave passages, and in volcanology to refer to eruption type.
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Phreatophyte
A phreatophyte is a deep-rooted plant that obtains a significant portion of the water that it needs from the phreatic zone (zone of saturation) or the capillary fringe above the phreatic zone.
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Vadose zone
The vadose zone, also termed the unsaturated zone, is the part of Earth between the land surface and the top of the phreatic zone, the position at which the groundwater (the water in the soil's pores) is at atmospheric pressure ("vadose" is from the Latin for "shallow").
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Water table
The water table is the upper surface of the zone of saturation.
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Saturated zone, Zone of saturation.
