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 beneath the water table is called an aquifer. Aquifers are huge storehouses of groundwater. There are two types of aquifers: unconfined and confined. Unconfined aquifers are those into which water seeps from the ground directly above the aquifer.

Detailed explanation-3: -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. What is an aquifer?

Detailed explanation-4: -The saturated zone lies below the zone of aeration and is the layer where the pores of the soil or rock are completely filled with water. 4. The groundwater table is the upper surface of the saturated zone.

Detailed explanation-5: -zone of saturation, saturated zone) is the area in an aquifer, below the water table, in which all pores, fractures, and cavities (including karst caves) are filled with water.