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Posted on 08/27/2011 6:55:20 AM PDT by Fractal Trader
Have you heard of a river flowing under a river? In an amazing discovery, scientists have found signs of an underground river flowing below the Amazon.
Researchers at the department of geophysics of the Brazil National Observatory have showed evidence of the existence of an underground river that flows 13,000 feet beneath the Amazon.
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The underground river is now named after Valiya Hamza, the scientist of Indian origin,who has been studying the Amazon region for more than 40 years. The discovery is part of the work of doctoral student Elizabeth Tavares Pimentel, under the guidance of Hamza.
The findings show that the Amazon, one of the longest rivers in the world, has two drainage systems: the surface drainage through the Amazon and the flow of groundwater through the deep sedimentary layers, the Hamza.
The width of the Hamza is said to be 3,700 miles long, flowing 13,000 feet below the Amazon. Both rivers flow from west to east, but the Hamza flows at only a fraction of the speed of Amazon.
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"It is likely that this river is responsible for the low level of salinity in the waters around the mouth of the Amazon," said a statement released by the National Observatory.
The latest findings are based on data analysis temperatures of 241 wells drilled by Petrobas in the 1970s and 1980s in the Amazon region. The results obtained allowed the identification of movement of groundwater in depths of 4,000 meters in this region.
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I wonder if there is something similar under such rivers as Mississippi, Nile, Ganges, etc?
Sounds like someone is reading a Clive Cussler book.
Under the rocks and stones, there is water underground.
Letting the days go by, into the silent water.
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
please do a better job of formatting your posts.
One of the first things they teach you in engineering college (for those that didn’t learn it before Kindergarten) is: “Water runs down hill”. Stories of underground rivers, 3 miles below the surface, violate that rule. The author is misrepresenting the data, either through lack of understanding, or over simplification, in my opinion.
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Thanks Fractal Trader and gleeaikin. And thanks to whomever gave me the link to an article about this, sometime this morning. :') I did open the tab, but I've been foolin' with other stuff. |
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Flo
That would be LENGTH
“The width of the Hamza is said to be 3,700 miles long”
Huh? What?
Underground rivers are easier to cross, but harder to fish out of.
It’s wide, but very short. :-)
no doubt, politically correct since an indian found the river.
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