vadose

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vadose (not comparable)

Positive
vadose

Comparative
not comparable

Superlative
none (absolute)

  1. Of or pertaining to water beneath the surface of the earth which is located above the level of the permanent groundwater.
    • 2003, B. B. Huckell; C. Vance Haynes, "The Ventana Complex: New Dates and New Ideas on Its Place in Early Holocene Western Prehistory," American Antiquity, vol. 68, no. 2 p. 357,
      Research has shown bone apatite to undergo chemical exchange with carbonates in either vadose water or groundwater.

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