phreatic in English

adjective
1
relating to or denoting underground water in the zone of saturation (beneath the water table).
For example, they may occur in the continental realm above the water table - the vadose zone; or in the permanently shallow saturated zone - the phreatic zone, in either freshwater or marine conditions.

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1. Deep Phreatic Thermal Explorer.

2. Phreatic and Strombolian volcanism between 1907 and 1932 excavated this crater.

3. Craters formed by phreatic explosions when lava flows entered Lake Myvatn, northern Iceland.

4. The stagnant marine phreatic zone of the Liassic facies types is indicated by late sediment consolidation.

5. Allothogenic or autochthonous mixtures of carbonate sand, bioclasts, and carbonaceous mud show a preferred orientation along structures, and thus influence the textures in the phreatic zone (Fig

6. The causes of the landslides are a wet climate and the presence of weak, hydrothermally altered volcanic rock containing abundant phreatic water on glacially oversteepened slopes.

7. The cumulative storage accumulation curve (CSAC) is a tool for saturated-volume fluctuation (SVF) analysis of transient recharge to shallow phreatic aquifers discharging only to springs.