GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The upper surface of this zone of saturation is called the water table. The saturated zone beneath the water table is called an aquifer, and aquifers are huge storehouses of water. What you are looking at in this picture is a “well” that exposes the water table, with an aquifer beneath it.

Detailed explanation-3: -Water Table. The water table is the boundary between the unsaturated zone and the saturated zone underground. Below the water table, groundwater fills any spaces between sediments and within rock.

Detailed explanation-4: -Above the water table is the unsaturated or vadose zone.

Detailed explanation-5: -Beneath the unsaturated zone lies the saturated zone. Here the openings in the rock and earth materials are completely filled with groundwater. The surface between the saturated zone and the unsaturated zone is called the water table.