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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:
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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.
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.
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 ..
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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Apart from the question of direct acquaintance of the bearers of Vedic culture with the ocean in the modern sense of the word, it is generally accepted that their worldview had the world encircled by oceans, a feature likely inherited from Proto-Indo-European mythology, with a " heavenly ocean " above the world, and a subterranean ocean of the underworld.
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* A spatial setting or scenes in outer space ( e. g., spaceflight ), on other worlds, or on subterranean earth.
It is interesting to note that totally-blind subterranean mammals ( e. g., blind mole rat Spalax sp.
The plan proposes that many industrial facilities would be better suited to having subterranean equivalents e. g. warehouses, railroads, and certain manufacturing facilities.
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He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia — the Roba El Khaliyeh or " Empty Space " of the ancients — and " Dahna " or " Crimson " desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death.
If the slowing down of certain seismic waves caused by the damp spot helped uncover the underground ocean, the unusual temperature variation with depth measured in 241 inactive oil wells helped locate the subterranean river.
Several geological factors have played a vital role in the formation and existence of these subterranean water bodies.
In Asimov's Empire and Foundation series, the capital planet Trantor of the galactic empire is a completely built-up planet, covered in its entirety with tall buildings and subterranean structures.
` Abdu ' l-Bahá accompanied his mother to visit Bahá ' u ' lláh who was then imprisoned in the infamous subterranean dungeon the Síyáh-Chál.
The original robots are subterranean buzzsaws that make a screaming sound as they approach a potential victim beneath the soil.
Columbia disaffiliated from the IDA and scrapped the plans for the controversial gym, building a subterranean physical fitness center under the north end of campus instead.
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.
Emergence myths commonly describe the creation of people and / or supernatural beings as a staged ascent or metamorphosis from nascent forms through a series of subterranean worlds to arrive at their current place and form.
There was Road, a story about an interstate highway in Minnesota ; a project about Robert Golka, the creator of laser-induced fireballs in Utah ; and the story of Centralia, Pennsylvania, the coal town in which an " inextinguishable subterranean fire " ignited in 1962.
Eurystheus was so scared by Heracles ' fearsome guise that he hid in a subterranean bronze winejar, and from that moment forth all labors were communicated to Heracles through a herald, Copreus.
Its story of a subterranean race waiting to reclaim the surface of the Earth is an early science fiction theme.
The main temple to Enki is called E-abzu, meaning " abzu temple " ( also E-en-gur-a, meaning " house of the subterranean waters ""), a ziggurat temple surrounded by Euphratean marshlands near the ancient Persian Gulf coastline at Eridu.
The first game of the Exile trilogy sees a party of newly created characters thrown from the world above into the subterranean world known as Exile.
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.
Geysers differ from non-eruptive hot springs in their subterranean structure ; many consist of a small vent at the surface connected to one or more narrow tubes that lead to underground reservoirs of water and pressure tight rock.
The concept of a hollow Earth still recurs in folklore and as the premise for subterranean fiction, a subgenre of adventure fiction.
The idea of a subterranean realm is also mentioned in the Vedic texts such as the Puranas, according to one story in the Puranas there is an ancient city called Shamballa which is located inside the earth, the belief in Shamballa as a city inside the earth is also found in Tibetan Buddhism.
The concept of a subterranean land inside the earth is popular in mythology, folklore and legends in ancient times.
In Mesopotamian religion there is a story of a man who, after traveling through the darkness of a tunnel in the mountain of " Mashu ", entered a subterranean garden.
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.
An ancient legend of the Angami Naga tribes of India claim that their ancestors emerged in ancient times from a subterranean land inside the earth.
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