Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to groundwater.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Subterranean, as the sources of wells.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Geol.) Subterranean; -- applied to sources supplying wells.
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- adjective geology Of or pertaining to
ground water
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to ground water
Etymologies
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Examples
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So in this telling, it was what geologists call a phreatic, or steam-powered flash explosion, that caused such headaches for the travel industry.
Knight Science Journalism Tracker Charlie Petit 2010
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So in this telling, it was what geologists call a phreatic, or steam-powered flash explosion, that caused such headaches for the travel industry.
Knight Science Journalism Tracker Charlie Petit 2010
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Now throw in singular events such as phreatic volcanic eruptions, which can measurably affect global temperatures for up to 10 years and you have a detection of overlappping causes problem of monumental proportions.
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No magmatic eruptions have occurred since the late Pleistocene, but large phreatic eruptions took place near Yellowstone Lake during the Holocene.
Volcano Information 2008
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As it is known, the problem is the phreatic mantle, the technicians ... [changes thought] However, I am told that they are about to find the solution.
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Mexico has hydraulic energy which has been affected by suspicious droughts coinciding with certain U.S. experiments related to hurricanes, and which in Mexico, as in Cuba, constitute irreplaceable sources of water for the rivers and for the phreatic mantle.
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Jimenez [president of the Cuban National Academy of Sciences] always reminds us that they help to fill the phreatic layer.
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That is what it must be; that no a single riverlet, arroyo, river, absolutely nothing remain undammed -- in addition to the use of drainage, the different types and systems of damming, the system for the injection of water in the phreatic mantle, and the use of subterranean water.
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However, the magma in the volcano is of the nature that it doesn't have to come in contact with water for phreatic explosions to happen, which indicates that ash will continue to be produced.
Iceland Review 2010
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Einarsson explained that when the eruption becomes isolated from the water around the crater, phreatic explosions decrease.
Iceland Review 2010
knitandpurl commented on the word phreatic
"I remembered the phreatic, throat-like shape from years ago; and the smell – heavy and stagnant – of something I could never quite identify."
Rising Ground by Philip Marsden, p 7 of the University of Chicago Press hardcover
September 21, 2016