OK, Master of Water Tables. Here's a question for you with, first, some background.

Let's take a very well-established water table just beneath the beating heart of the capillary level in the zone of aeration. Now something happens to cause that water table to drop--let's say bodies of water that fed the water table have been dammed up so that the lower areas no longer receive the feeding of water they once enjoyed. So the water tables below the dam drop. And they drop a lot.

What happens to that capillary level that was once kissing its sweet lips against the water table? Do the capillaries dry up? And what about the area of soil that is now between the now lonely capillaries and the dropped water table? What is this newly created area called?

That's what I'd like to know.

Singing the lament for deserted capillaries,
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