Moist soil has a water content less than full saturation. Wet soil is at saturation or above. You can determine this by picking up a handful of soil and squeezing it together. If you can squeeze out water, the soil is wet. If you can't get any water out, but the "ball" holds its shape, then it's just moist.
This occurs where there is total interconnected porosity and the material in question is below the phreatic surface / water table. If the material (usually a rock or soil) allows the easy flow of water (i.e. it is permeable) then it may also be known as an aquifer.
Knowing the consistency limits of soil is important to crowing crops, fruit trees, and other vegetation. Soil consistency is an important factor both in water holding capacity as well as water movement through the soil for use by plants.
Water loggingBreeding place of mosquitosGround water table is increasedComplete saturation of root zone causes efflorescence.
The soil under the zone of saturation.
Moist soil has a water content less than full saturation. Wet soil is at saturation or above. You can determine this by picking up a handful of soil and squeezing it together. If you can squeeze out water, the soil is wet. If you can't get any water out, but the "ball" holds its shape, then it's just moist.
This occurs where there is total interconnected porosity and the material in question is below the phreatic surface / water table. If the material (usually a rock or soil) allows the easy flow of water (i.e. it is permeable) then it may also be known as an aquifer.
Knowing the consistency limits of soil is important to crowing crops, fruit trees, and other vegetation. Soil consistency is an important factor both in water holding capacity as well as water movement through the soil for use by plants.
more than 100%(over saturated but saturation is 100%) .....because shrinkage limit is smallest water content at which soil is saturated......means at shrinkage limit itself it posses 100% saturation ........
Ground Water, which seeps into the soil and fills the cracks unerground.
Water loggingBreeding place of mosquitosGround water table is increasedComplete saturation of root zone causes efflorescence.
The soil under the zone of saturation.
The definition of 'water clogging' is the saturation of soil with water. This may prevent agriculture. The term can also be used to mean the absence of air in an archaeological environment by water in the ground.
According to the Wikipedia article on Water Table as of this writing, the zone of intermittent saturation is a range of depth in which the ground is intermittently saturated with water. In some places, the water table raises in the winter, and falls in the summer. The zone between the winter height and the summer height is the zone of intermittent saturation. Sometimes wet. Sometimes dry.
Tree roots hold the soil in place, the roots take up water and send it up the tree and out the leaves (evapotranspiration), which keeps the soil from getting saturation - saturated soil can slide.
The zone of aeration is where there is both air and water within the pore spaces in the ground. In the zone of saturation the pore spaces are totally filled with water. The boundary between these two zones is known as the water table or phreatic surface.
The zone of saturation and the water table share two zones of ground water.