Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or being water that is located in the zone of aeration in the earth's crust above the groundwater level.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shallow: specifically applied to those ground waters which seep into rocks and soil from the surface, as opposed to the construction waters which were built into the rocks at the time of their formation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to water beneath the
surface of the earth which is located above the level of thepermanent groundwater .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Among other findings, the team concluded that tracer transport in soils and shallow groundwater could be strongly affected by gaps in the vadose zone's restrictive fine-material layers.
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Among other findings, the team concluded that tracer transport in soils and shallow groundwater could be strongly affected by gaps in the vadose zone's restrictive fine-material layers.
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"It became apparent to us we needed more time for the deep vadose zone," said Dennis Faulk,
The Seattle Times 2010
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The researchers studied how contaminants move through the vadose zone, which is the area between the soil surface and the groundwater zone.
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In addition, DOE officials in Washington, D.C., are considering ways to find solutions, including establishing a research center at Hanford for deep vadose zone contamination.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Those include the huge processing canyons for removing plutonium from irradiated fuel, waste burial grounds, liquid waste disposal areas and the deep vadose zone.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Planning work for the deep vadose zone has been given another four or five years to allow DOE to develop new technologies for cleaning up the soil and preventing the contamination from moving into the ground water.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Such transition zones are areas of high microbial activity and diversity and occur between saturated and vadose parts in soils, at the boundary of aquatic sediments and the water column, or in tidal regions.
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The vadose zone includes contamination that can be too deep to just dig up at 250 or 300 feet below the surface of the ground.
The Seattle Times 2010
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The researchers studied how contaminants move through the vadose zone, which is the area between the soil surface and the groundwater zone.
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