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(hydrology) The water, derived from precipitation, that infiltrates the soil surface and then moves laterally through the upper layers of soil above the water table until it reaches a stream channel or returns to the surface at some point downslope from its point of infiltration.
Movement of water through soil, but at a greater depth than throughflow. It is difficult to separate the two processes in the field.
In hydrology, interflow is the name given to the lateral movement of water in the vadose zone, the name given to the area between the soil water which is above and the ground water underneath.
Interflow could be described as a 'semi-deep' flow as it is above the regions where baseflow takes place. Interflow is slower than throughflow but faster than groundwater flow.
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