GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -after drilling through the unsaturated zone is the groundwater table.

Detailed explanation-2: -Groundwater occurs in the saturated soil and rock below the water table. If the aquifer is shallow enough and permeable enough to allow water to move through it at a rapid-enough rate, then people can drill wells into it and withdraw water.

Detailed explanation-3: -water table, also called groundwater table, upper level of an underground surface in which the soil or rocks are permanently saturated with water. The water table separates the groundwater zone that lies below it from the capillary fringe, or zone of aeration, that lies above it.

Detailed explanation-4: -What most likely happens if water flows through a permeable soil layer and reaches a clay layer? It pools on top of the clay layer. A water feature that could be a source of groundwater for humans is found at a location on a hillside where Earth’s surface is lower than the water table.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.