Cross section showing the water table varying with surface topography as well as a perched water tableCross-section of a hillslope depicting the vadose zone, capillary fringe, water table, and the phreatic or saturated zone. (Source: United States Geological Survey.)
In a cave system, the epiphreatic zone or floodwater zone is the zone between the vadose (unsaturated) zone above and phreatic (saturated) zone below. It is regularly flooded and has a significant porosity. It has a great potential for cave formation.[1]
^Prelovšek, Mitja (2009). Present-Day Speleogenetic Processes, Factors and Features in the Epiphreatic Zone: Dissertation(PDF). University of Nova Gorica. p. 5.
cave system, the epiphreaticzone or floodwater zone is the zone between the vadose (unsaturated) zone above and phreatic (saturated) zone below. It is regularly...
phreatic zone boundaries. Capillary fringe – Subsurface layer in which groundwater seeps up from a water table by capillary action Epiphreaticzone – Zone between...
up from a water table by capillary action Epiphreaticzone – Zone between the saturated and unsaturated zones Groundwater – Water located beneath the ground...
unsaturated zone, without defining it as a significant part of either. Epiphreaticzone – Zone between the saturated and unsaturated zones Infiltration...
Present-Day Speleogenetic Processes, Factors and Features in the EpiphreaticZone: Dissertation (PDF). University of Nova Gorica. pp. 217–228. "Tkalca...
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