We get water within a few metres in the plains.We also get the water up in the mountains likewise.How?

Question

Is capillary action the reason for this

There is the mean sea level(MS).Mountains rise thousands of metres above MSL How water rises that much height above MSL
Is it due to capillary force or any other force?

Do you mean to say that all the water available in the mountains is only trapped water.Is there not a more or less continuous water table around the globe?

Answer 1

Yes, exactly...capillary action....there are other reasons as well...the unseen god plays a great role in transporting water to the mountains...an underground playmaker...

Answer 2

In Georgia there is a river that runs through Ft. Benning and fllows into the Chattahoochee River. Ft. Benning Georgia with over 300 square miles miles of woods and land is beautiful.

There is a River on Ft. Benning that is pure spring water from underground and it has been flowing there for years and years and years. The water is cold even in the Summer, but it is the prettiest looking water. Imagine all that water coming from under ground non stop and the river flows:) There's big Bream (fish) the size of a plate that swim in there and nobody fishes for them until I came along. I catch them all the time and the best weight thus far has been 3 lbs for the largest and this is very common and the 2 lb Bream very abundunt. Let me put it to everybody this way, everytime you fish there you will catch about 40 to 50 Bream and the largest is right at 3 lbs in size 15 inches long....now thats a Bream. There are pools of water along the river at each fall. In these Pools the Bream grow big because the food source is great and nobody suspects them being there. I discovered it by accident one day playing around the river and decided to fish for Bass with a lure and cast it in the pool and I was surprised when I thought I had a Bass it was a Bream and I was shocked and I have been fishing Ft. Benning river pools ever since. So Water my friend either it is from the mountains or from underground is the best friendly mineral source we have and I love it not like in the Dessert where you come up on a Camel laying next to a pool of water dead as bones. Makes you wonder if you would drink the water. Human bones too. The water was infested with a parasite that literally eats away at your tract so rapidly your dead in a few hours.

Answer 3

The source of ground water is rain. Rain water percolates down into the ground, by gravity, through porous and permeable layers, and stops when it encounters an impermeable layer. It can also move under ground not only vertically but laterally along permeable layers. So when it finds an impermeable rock that confines it at the bottom as well as on all sides, (such as a trough), it will accumulate there.

The top level of the accumulated water is usually horizontal.

Answer 4

Water table actuall follows the shape of the topography.
So it convex upwards below the mountains or hills or for that matter any raised landmass from MSL.
Likewise it concave upwards below the plains or depressions found on the earth surface.

This is the sole reason as far as i am concerned...........!

Answer 5

underground streams and aquifers. Water seeps (sometimes flows) down through cracks in the mountain and can form pools and an invisible watershed beneath the surface

Answer 6

Even above that water is in the form of Vapour/clouds. It rains. The water settles above rocky area.

Answer 7

No, cappilaries are too busy turning into butterflies to concern themselves with that.

Answer 8

It is trapped there also like it is in the plains.

Answer 9

i have no idea