GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The water table is an underground boundary between the soil surface and the area where groundwater saturates spaces between sediments and cracks in rock.

Detailed explanation-2: -The saturated zone, a zone in which all the pores and rock fractures are filled with water, underlies the unsaturated zone. The top of the saturated zone is called the water table (Diagram 1). The water table may be just below or hundreds of feet below the land surface.

Detailed explanation-3: -Groundwater is the saturated zone of soil/rock below the land surface | U.S. Geological Survey. An official website of the United States government.

Detailed explanation-4: -An aquifer is a body of porous rock or sediment saturated with groundwater. Groundwater enters an aquifer as precipitation seeps through the soil. It can move through the aquifer and resurface through springs and wells.

Detailed explanation-5: -The vadose water is further subdivided into three zones, i.e., soil water zone, intermediate zone and capillary zone.