Perched Water Table
Water
Underground water lying over dry soil, and sealed from it by an impervious layer. A water table usually of limited area maintained above the normal free water elevation by the presence of an intervening relatively impervious confining stratum.
The water table of a relatively small ground-water body supported above the general ground water body.
- — Service Hydrologist Reference Manual Glossary of Hydrologic Terms retrieved 2014-06-01