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104: 158: 174: 350:. The Lost River is about 85 miles (137 km) long and its name is derived from the fact that at least 23 miles (37 km) of the primary course of the river flows completely underground. The river disappears into a series of 114: 205:(Trebišnjica is considered to be one of the largest sinking rivers in the world; one of its effluents, Ombla, springs out of huge cave near 74:
which results in huge amounts of water evaporating from the river generally towards the mouth. Losing streams are also common in regions of
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due to overlaying a deep and porous aquifer, re-emerging about 15 kilometres away from its output at
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Tom Aley, Karst Groundwater, Missouri Conservationist Online, Mar. 2000 – Vol. 61 No. 3
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can be entered by boat and dived through a cave system serving as an effluence of the
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is below the bottom of the stream channel. This is the opposite of a more common
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through the White Mountains. As it flows through the notch, it passes through
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region of the state. It flows into an underground channel northeast of
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There are many natural examples of subterranean rivers including:
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have covered the river, creating a network of boulder caves.
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Amazing Tales from Indiana By Fred D. Cavinder, 1990, Pg 4
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New Hampshire GRANIT state geographic information system
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Stream or river that loses water as it flows downstream
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normally disappears below ground as it flows down the
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that loses water as it flows downstream. The water
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Adriatic Sea
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