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Definition of phreatic in English: phreaticadjective frɪˈatɪkfriˈædɪk Geology 1Relating to or denoting underground water in the zone of saturation (beneath the water table). Compare with vadose Example sentencesExamples - For example, they may occur in the continental realm above the water table - the vadose zone; or in the permanently shallow saturated zone - the phreatic zone, in either freshwater or marine conditions.
- 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.
- In the case of the Kendrick Formation, however, the system was closed by early compaction of surrounding clays, and diagenesis apparently occurred in a marine phreatic environment.
- Gravitational sediments can enter a cave system in the form of entrance talus material, colluvium, roof fall, or phreatic infiltrates.
- Conversely, grainstone fabrics of the upper sequences show the development of bladed and equant calcite cement around oolites, indicative of a primary cementation in a freshwater phreatic environment.
- 1.1 (of a volcanic eruption) caused by the heating and expansion of groundwater.
Example sentencesExamples - This type of eruption, called a phreatic eruption, is characterized by a volcanic crater that goes beneath the level of the surrounding landscape and is encircled by a wide, low ring of volcanic debris.
- 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.
- This eruption began in July 1995 with phreatic explosions following 3 years of precursory seismic activity.
- Eruptions after 26 October 1986 were phreatic steam explosions, not direct expressions of magma.
- The characteristic tuffs of the Balder Formation originate from phreatic eruptions from the incipient continental rift zone between Eurasia and Greenland to the west.
Origin Late 19th century: from Greek phrear, phreat- 'a well' + -ic. Definition of phreatic in US English: phreaticadjectivefriˈædɪkfrēˈadik Geology 1Relating to or denoting underground water in the zone of saturation (beneath the water table). Compare with vadose Example sentencesExamples - For example, they may occur in the continental realm above the water table - the vadose zone; or in the permanently shallow saturated zone - the phreatic zone, in either freshwater or marine conditions.
- 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.
- In the case of the Kendrick Formation, however, the system was closed by early compaction of surrounding clays, and diagenesis apparently occurred in a marine phreatic environment.
- Conversely, grainstone fabrics of the upper sequences show the development of bladed and equant calcite cement around oolites, indicative of a primary cementation in a freshwater phreatic environment.
- 1.1 (of a volcanic eruption) caused by the heating and expansion of groundwater.
Example sentencesExamples - The characteristic tuffs of the Balder Formation originate from phreatic eruptions from the incipient continental rift zone between Eurasia and Greenland to the west.
- This type of eruption, called a phreatic eruption, is characterized by a volcanic crater that goes beneath the level of the surrounding landscape and is encircled by a wide, low ring of volcanic debris.
- 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.
- Eruptions after 26 October 1986 were phreatic steam explosions, not direct expressions of magma.
- This eruption began in July 1995 with phreatic explosions following 3 years of precursory seismic activity.
Origin Late 19th century: from Greek phrear, phreat- ‘a well’ + -ic. |