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What does phreatic mean?

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Adjective
  1. (geology) of or pertaining to ground water
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If this phreatic groundwater layer is just a few meters thick, it may run dry during the dry season, leaving your well empty.
In 1990 John Cordingley found that the sump had disappeared and that the passage continued along a tube to a step up into a small phreatic rift.
Gravitational sediments can enter a cave system in the form of entrance talus material, colluvium, roof fall, or phreatic infiltrates.
Also, important surfaces are affected by quarries and sand exploitation which deepen the river beds and decrease the level of phreatic water.
The characteristic tuffs of the Balder Formation originate from phreatic eruptions from the incipient continental rift zone between Eurasia and Greenland to the west.
That in 4390 was large and complex, with eruptions at the central vent and radial fissures on the flank, submarine and phreatic eruptions, and pyroclastic flows.

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