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. Water pressure and atmospheric pressure are equal at this boundary.

Detailed explanation-2: -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: -Eventually the water reaches a depth where all openings in soil or rock are filled with water; this is called the saturated zone. The water in the saturate zone is called groundwater. The top of the saturated zone is called the water table.

Detailed explanation-4: -The upper surface of this zone of saturation is called the water table. The saturated zone beneath the water table is called an aquifer. Aquifers are huge storehouses of groundwater.

Detailed explanation-5: -The water table sits on top of what experts call the zone of saturation, or phreatic zone. The area above the water table is called the vadose zone.