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LAKES AND GROUNDWATER
FEATURES OF A GROUNDWATER SYSTEM
Zone of
aeration Layer
Lake Stream of soil
moisture
Zone of
aeration
Marsh
Capillary
fringe
Water table
Saturated
zone
CLOSE-UP OF
Permanently SURFACE LAYER
saturated zone
Dry-season (saturated in wet
water table Temporarily saturated and dry seasons)
zone (saturated only in
Present water wet season)
table (wet season) THE DEAD SEA, ISRAEL/JORDAN
EXAMPLES OF LAKES
Lake in kettle Oxbow lake
Glacial (former site of (cut-off river
deposits ice block) meander)
River
River
KETTLE LAKE OXBOW LAKE Jordan
Caldera Volcanic Movement
(collapsed lake along strike- Strike-slip
crater) slip (lateral) (lateral) fault
fault
Dead Sea
Lake in
elongated Steep rift-
VOLCANIC LAKE hollow valley walls
STRIKE-SLIP (LATERAL) FAULT LAKE
Rift valley Steep back wall Moraine
eroded by frost or rock lip
and ice damming
lake
Salt left by
evaporation
Israel
High
valley Sinking graben Tarn (circular
walls (block fault) mountain lake) Shallow Jordan
flats
GRABEN (BLOCK-FAULT) LAKE TARN
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