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hyporheic zone: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

● anchor · a single construct in hydrology Nearest construct by meaning·not indexed
hyporheiczone1 CONSTRUCTHyporheic zoneWHITE · MIXING ZONE

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Hydrology

Where stream water and groundwater mix in the bed

The hyporheic zone is the saturated sediment beneath and beside a stream where surface water and groundwater mix, exchanging water, solutes, heat, and organisms through the streambed. White's 1993 Perspectives on defining and delineating hyporheic zones examined the competing hydrological and biological criteria used to bound this transition, noting that its edges depend on which exchange is being measured. The referent is the mixing interface between a river and its underlying aquifer, central to stream metabolism and nutrient processing.[1]

Unit
The spatial extent and exchange flux of the stream-groundwater mixing zone
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Delineated with tracer injections, temperature and solute gradients, and the proportion of stream-derived water in subsurface samples

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References

  1. White, D. S. (1993). Perspectives on defining and delineating hyporheic zones. Journal of the North American Benthological Society, 12(1), 61–69. https://doi.org/10.2307/1467686

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