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Water elapses throughout the Earth in forms of well known cyclic processes as evaporation of the oceans, river discharge and rainfall. Nevertheless, the cycle has some aspects that are less known, such as the hydrological cycle involving the karst groundwater flow.
Now the sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.
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Chinarro, D. (2014). Karst and Glacial Hydrology. In: System Engineering Applied to Fuenmayor Karst Aquifer (San Julián de Banzo, Huesca) and Collins Glacier (King George Island, Antarctica). Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08858-7_3
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