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Subsurface waters can be divided into two categories (Fig. 1): (i) water in the unsaturated or vadose zone and (ii) water below the water table, occurring in the saturated or phreatic zone. The term “groundwater” traditionally refers to the latter.
Subsurface water and groundwater. All water beneath the ground
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Percopo, C., Guerra, M. (2018). Groundwater. In: Bobrowsky, P.T., Marker, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Engineering Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73568-9_150
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