Püütav

Püütav is an Estonian name for a type of groundwater spring found in wetlands. The name is applied to a specific category of springs characterized by their location in shallow, seasonally flooded areas. These features are typically formed through the process of ground water flowing through the saturated zone and emerging at or near the surface.

Püütav springs are often found in settings such as raised bogs, arrayed in low-lying wetlands, or in zones of intensive ground water circulation. In contemporary usage, the term typically pertains to those springs that are fed by shallow, permeable layers of the substrate.

Geologically, püütav springs owe their existence to the movement of water beneath the surface, where there is a preponderance of fine-grained sediments or ice-thaw generated materials. This facilitates hydraulic communication between underground water and outlets near the surface, where it may accumulate and emerge.

Seasonal variations in the behavior of püütav springs are considerable, due in large part to fluctuation in ground water table depths and aquifer permeability. As such, this specific water-coming may gain potential to possess academic utility or popularity in cases addressing processes reliant upon level of ground acoustic scattering. Püütav presents a worthy prototypical example of subsurface and up-welling hydric distrubits.