Subterranean river
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A subterranean river is a river that runs beneath the ground surface. These rivers can either be entirely natural, or a result of the deliberate installation of a culvert to channel a flow from the surface to underground, usually as a part of urban development.
To reverse this process is known as daylighting a stream and is a visible form of river restoration. One successful example is the Cheonggye Stream in the centre of Seoul.[1]
Examples of subterranean rivers include:
- London's River Fleet
- Jura River that some believe flows deep under Paris
- Zenne flowing underground through Brussels
- the Dommel underneath 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands
- Santa Fe River in northern Florida.
- Palawan in Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park on the island of Palawan, Philippines
- Son Trach river in Vietnam
- the Sac Actun system (named after the Mayan name of the larger of the two branches) is the result of a confirmed connection between two other rivers previously thought to be separate. Discovered by divers Robbie Schmittner and Steve Boagarts in January 2007, the full length is 153.6 kilometers long and a maximum depth of 72 meters underneath the Yucatán Peninsula.[2]
Another notable example is the subterranean portion of the Nile River.
A flow somewhat similar to a subterranean river is a large body of moving water that exists in the Atlantic Ocean near the floor, part of the North Atlantic Current.[citation needed]
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Kirk (13 October 2005)
- ^ (English) Divers Discover The Worlds Longest Underground River (Deutsche Presse-Agentur)
[edit] Bibliography
- Kirk, Donald. "Seoul peels back concrete to let a river run freely once again", World>Asia Pacific, The Christian Science Monitor, 2005-10-13. Retrieved on August 21, 2006.
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