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Capillary action can cause water to rise underground, also do not under estimate the amount of water even a small summit can collect - the Malvern Hills are an example where there are more than eighty permanent springs draining and rising around what is a relatively small area. Bruce >From: Philip David <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: for students of holy wells and waterlore ><[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: energetic water >Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2001 17:58:21 -0000 > > >I don't think all underground wells and springs have an underground flow >if > >you mean that there is an underground watercourse that is identifiable >like > >a streamway through a cavern. Most are fed by water seeping through rock >and > >fissures. In a few rare instances the fissures give rise to a self >flushing > >action. An underground chamber slowly fills up and when it overflows it > >produces a simple syphonic action until it empties again. > > > >Doess that sound plausible? > > > > > >Bruce > >Thank you for this, Bruce. Yes, I understand. What I'm curious about is >water rising underground. One model that I have in mind is a very deep (and >quite large) lake only slightly below the two summits of Slieve Gullion, >Co. >Armagh, which is very steep on all sides below the lake. It doesn't seem >plausible that all that water comes from the two summits. Does water rise >under the ground, and if so, how? Could "syphonic action" account for this? > Phil _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.