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The subterranean rivers of London are mentioned in several novels, including Thrones, Dominations ( by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh ), where a character remarks " You can bury them deep under, sir ; you can bind them in tunnels, ... but in the end where a river has been, a river will always be.
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Due to subterranean drainage, there may be very limited surface water, even in the absence of any rivers and lakes.
According to Lambert many reported poltergeist incidents can be accounted for by physical causes such as " subterranean rivers, tidal patterns, geological factors and shifts in the house foundation, and climate changes.
The subterranean or underground rivers of London are the tributaries of the River Thames and River Lea that were built over during the growth of the metropolis of London.
As the city developed from a cluster of villages, many of the existing rivers were buried or canalized: see subterranean rivers of London.
The River Fleet is the largest of London's subterranean rivers.
In the detective novel " Thrones, Dominations ", set in 1936 London, Lord Peter Wimsey and Police Superintendent Charles Parker descend into the Fleet and nearby subterranean rivers, in search of the body of a murder victim-and barely escape drowning when a sudden heavy rain causes a flood underground.
Since limestone is soluble in water, rain seeps through cracks everywhere and forms subterranean rivers which flow through a large system of caves until they emerge.
Sometimes the discharge of the water from subterranean rivers can be spectacular, too, e. g. the Blautopf, a source for a tributary of the Danube.
A subterranean river is a river that runs wholly or partly beneath the ground surface – one where the riverbed does not represent the surface of the Earth ( rivers flowing in gorges are not classed as subterranean ).
Some fish ( such as the Amblyopsidae ) and other troglobite organisms are adapted to life in subterranean rivers and lakes.
Examples of subterranean rivers also occur in mythology and literature.
There are many natural examples of subterranean rivers.
The River Effra | Effra is one of the subterranean rivers of London.
* The Fleet and other subterranean rivers of London
Some fish ( such as the Amblyopsidae ) and other troglobite organisms are adapted to life in subterranean rivers and lakes.
Dante Alighieri, in his Inferno, included the Acheron, Phlegethon, and Styx as rivers within his subterranean Hell.
Several other novels also feature subterranean rivers ..
The subterranean rivers of London feature in e. g. the novel " Drowning Man " by Michael Robotham as well as in the novel Thrones, Dominations by Dorothy L. Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh in which a character remarks:
Plato contended that channels of hot and cold waters flow in inexhaustible quantities through subterranean rivers.
Groundwaters sustain rivers, wetlands and lakes, as well as subterranean ecosystems within karst or alluvial aquifers.
* The River Fleet, the largest of London's subterranean rivers.
These lakes are a result of the confluence of several small rivers and subterranean karst rivers.
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The River Effra | Effra is one of the subterranean river s of London.
A London subterranean river, used as a sewer, is visited briefly in Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere.
The metropolis of London has been occupied for millennia, and has over that time acquired a large number of subterranean structures.
* Trench, R. and Hillman, E. ( 1993 ) London Under London: A subterranean guide, second revised edition, London: John Murray, ISBN 0-7195-5288-5.
* London Underground, London's subterranean train system, commonly known as The Tube
The Central London Railway ( CLR ) opened its subterranean Shepherd's Bush station in 1900, with its entrance overlooking Shepherd's Bush Green, next to the MR's Uxbridge Road station.
* River Fleet, subterranean river in London, England
Built in the late 1950s in response to the increasing threat of nuclear warfare during the Cold War, the 35-acre subterranean site was designed to be the main emergency government war headquarters of the UK outside of London and safely house up to 4, 000 central government personnel in the event of a nuclear strike.
The River Westbourne, one of Subterranean rivers of London | London's many subterranean rivers, flows above the station in a large grey iron conduit.
Walbrook is the name of a ward, a street and a subterranean river in the City of London.
It links Holborn, via Holborn Circus, with Newgate Street in the City of London, passing over Farringdon Street and the subterranean River Fleet.
Inaugurated on January 17, 1875, the Tünel is the second-oldest subterranean urban rail line in the world after the London Underground ( 1863 ), and the first subterranean urban rail line in continental Europe ; though the first full subway line with multiple underground stations in continental Europe was Line 1 of the Budapest Metro ( 1896 ).
* The Rotundas, a subterranean structure in Marsham Street in London.
The Warheads base of operations was Mys-Tech's subterranean headquarters deep beneath the Museum of Pagan Antiquities, Canary Wharf, London, England and they travelled to other planets, time periods, locations or dimensions by means of unstable wormholes opened by Mys-Tech's techno-wizards.
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The original robots are subterranean buzzsaws that make a screaming sound as they approach a potential victim beneath the soil.
They consume many different kinds of fungi, including those involved in symbiotic mycorrhizal associations with trees, and are an important vector for dispersal of the spores of subterranean sporocarps ( truffles ) which have co-evolved with these and other mycophagous mammals and thus lost the ability to disperse their spores through the air.
In this story, the Gnomes are still clearly subterranean creatures, guarding treasures of gold within the Untersberg mountain.
In C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia, gnomes, or " Earthmen " as they are sometimes called, live in the Underland, a series of subterranean caverns.
There is an Irish myth which says tunnels in County Down, Northern Ireland lead to the land of the subterranean Tuatha de Danaan, a group of people who are believed to have introduced Druidism to Ireland, and then went back underground.
Two subterranean races are:
They must need but little water, if any at all, as their ' towns ' are often, indeed generally, found in the midst of the most arid plains — unless we suppose they dig down to subterranean fountains.
Sometimes they are the only connection to caves or other subterranean features.
In the Mystara / " Known World " setting, shadow elves are a race of subterranean elves who have been mutated via magic.
Moles are small cylindrical mammals adapted to a subterranean lifestyle.
The doctrine, therefore, that volcanoes are safety valves, and that the subterranean convulsions are probably most violent when first the volcanic energy shifts itself to a new quarter, is not modern .</ p >
Coruscant is a planet-covering open-air city, while Trantor's buildings are all subterranean or under domes due to worsening weather conditions.
Diplurans are common in moist soil, leaf litter or humus, but are rarely seen because of their size and subterranean lifestyle.
Catacombs are human-made subterranean passageways for religious practice.
The gametophytes are subterranean.
The interior is better preserved ; beneath the arena are subterranean passages like those in the amphitheatre at Puteoli.
The county and city are named for a wall-like subterranean rock formation that runs throughout the county.
Virile, young lightning deities dominating the skies during the rainy season are transformed into wasted, terrestrial and subterranean old men ( Mamlab ' Grandfather ') during the dry season ; in the ocean, the old men rejuvenate themselves again.
A few miles north of Shoshone are the Shoshone Ice Caves, hollow subterranean lava tubes that stay cool enough for the ice inside them to remain frozen throughout the summer.
Holywell Quadrangle backs directly onto New Quad, and the two are connected by an arched corridor that also contains the steps down to Hertford's subterranean bar.
While travelling to a subterranean base, Ben and Nelani are forced out of a mining car.
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