स्थल मंडल का वह भाग जिसमें छिद्र पूर्ण रूप से जल से भरे रहते हैं तथा दाब के समान अथवा अधिक होता है।
संतृप्ति क्षेत्र भौम - जल स्तर के नीचे की वह भूमि जहां के रिक्त स्थल द्रवस्थैतिक दाब के कारण जल से भर जाते है।
That part of lithosphere in which the pores are comletely filled with water and pressure is at or above atmospheric.
The zone in which the functional permeable rocks are saturated with water under hydrostatic pressure. Water in the zone of saturation will flow into a well and is called ground water.1
साभार - fwie.fw.vt.edu
Saturation Zone - The portion of the soil profile where available water storage is completely filled. The boundary between the vadose zone and the saturation zone is called the water table. Note that under certain periods of infiltration, the uppermost layers of the soil profile can be saturated. See vadose zone.