This article describes a 24-hour daily activity of ground water cycle. It first proves the existence of vapour up-flux using a custom-made reflective carpet. At high grounds of equatorial altitudes above 1500 meter (less than that for other latitudes), water vapour is thought to be condensed forming fresh water within mountains. An evidence of this was found in several sites in Saudi Arabia, where fresh water down-streams from these mountains and pops-out of mountain sides or up from ground surface. Photos of such streams are presented. Another evidence of these rivers is presented in photos of green coastal regions in Saudi Arabia. The paper urges researchers to make concise annual water-budget studies for major known rivers in the world, to prove that rainfall in the basin of each of them runs severely short to explain the annual river flow quantity.
Water has so many active mechanisms underground, all interacting. Ground Rivers are distinctive part of ground- water. They follow one well-defined mechanism. This article describes that particular mechanism and its activity. Although this article is peculiar, the water issue is so important to life, that not a single scientist opinion could be ignored. The author-work over the issue extends for 18 years. The popularity of the idea will grow by engaging global minds to dialog about it and rectify any ambiguities.
Ground rivers are naturally formed rivers of fresh water that are totally cycling underground [
The vapour flux coming up at low ground surface, in regions at equatorial belt, can also condense when facing muddy soil or cold weather. Example of muddy soil condensed vapour explains natural forest formations at places where rain-falls run short to explain, and it also explains the survival of desert oasis. Example of cold weather condensed vapour explains fog and low cloud formations at such places.
If not captured, the vapour flux coming up at low ground surface, escapes off land through soil voids, and joins sky clouds, un-noticed. This joining has a very active role in cloud lightening as thought by the author. In Saudi Arabia, clouds coming past the desert are noticed to be dark and full of charge, with fierce lightening; unlike clouds past the sea.
The vapour up-going flux, that was unable to escape to atmosphere, can face various scenarios, depending on the height of ground surface, ground geology and layer properties. One scenario that can be called the compressed-vapour-pocket scenario, happens when ground surface is less than 300 meter above sea level with conservative geology and non-porous layers. Here, the vapour is trapped directly above where it has vapourized, forming a cooking pot. Crude Oil is a very likely product of such scenario.
Another scenario, which can be called the foggy scenario, happens when ground surface is less than 300 meter above sea level with conservative geology and porous layers. Here, the vapour trapped directly above, where it has vapourized, manage to escape from the sides to the atmosphere, in such a quantity that it forms fog at the surface of that region.
A third scenario, can be called the warming scenario, happens when ground surface is more than 2000 meter above sea level with conservative geology and non-porous layers. Here, the vapour trapped directly above, where it has vapourized, gets colder and colder till it condenses to drops of liquid fresh water and fall as water droplets; re-evapourate, re-condense and re-fall; and so on, in an endless cycle; resulting in heat exchange that warms up the ground.
The scenarios of the vapour behavior are endless. However, the most important one is the river scenario. This scenario happens when ground surface is more than 2000 meter above sea level with wide spreading conservative geology and porous layers. Here again, the vapour gets colder and colder till it condenses to drops of liquid fresh water. Due to porosity, these droplets manage to move, making ground-rivers, reservoirs and tunnels. They flow back to the sea. In certain conditions, some ground rivers flowing to the sea manage to hold tact, forming fresh-water lakes floating on sea, see
This hidden ground water-cycle is very much responsible for the formation of ground caves over centuries. Some known, and most unknown, these caves often end with fresh water flow or reservoir.
The hidden ground water cycle interferes quite well with the known rainfall water cycle that develops from solar energy evaporating sea surface water (not deep sea water), making the vapour to ascend into atmosphere cold heights, where it condenses to water and ice droplets that descend back to earth as snow, rain, and ice hails. However, this interference (as much illusive and deceptive it is), is quite detectable. A ground river is driven by
a 24-hour daily mechanism. It is strongly attached to high mountains (2 km above sea level at equatorial latitudes and less at higher latitudes). Its flow rate is proportional to the spreadth of the mountain. It may, under certain conditions, pop up to earth surface, flow for a distance, and then sink again. This causes the evolution of: “dis-continued” rivers that flow all the time, but are not reaching to the sea. They rather sink back to ground, or get consumed, as seen in
Here is shown a green cover at popped ground-river called: Najl of Shaqqa Yamanyyia, that sprang to surface at: (20.11115˚N, 40.91944˚E). It flew at start at about: 40 m3/min, ran for more than 30 km, then sank at: (19.90283˚N, 40.72438˚E), making a lake of fresh water, 15 km off green covered shore, at Red Sea In Saudi Arabia. The view was captured in 2001 by a research team formed by the author. Sadly, a wild flood several years later, dumped rocks and soil, 5 m high above the springing location, after which the Najl shrank both in flow rate and in running length, digging its own alternative path.
The above-mentioned two cases of
Some other ground rivers, particularly the wild ones, can be detected by the existence of peaky mountains all along their hidden way to sea. For them, the sea itself shows that through two signs: sea tongue and green shore. The sea tongue is formed by the constant removal of underground soil particles, which over centuries of time lower the shore level, hence sea water re-fill. On the other hand, the dumped fresh water makes the shore less saline, hence allowing green cover to develop, as seen in
The mountain-water and rain-water can be distinguished by testing. In mountain-water, hydrogen and oxygen isotopes exist in much abundance than in rain-water. This is because the former comes from deep sea water, while the latter from surface water. This makes the two types of water differ in radio-activity and specific gravity as thought by the author.
It is thought that the dissolved salts in the former are mostly sulfides since Sulfur is abundant beneath earth surface, while in the latter they are oxides due to O2 abundance in atmosphere. Ph-level and types of bacteria differ accordingly.
It is worth to emphasize, that the ground river cycle is a 24-hour continuous daily mechanism. On the other hand, the rainfall water cycle is a discontinuous mechanism that runs “on and off” at dispersed times and locations. Logically speaking, it is reasonable to attach the sustenance of known rivers to the ground cycle.
Testing any water specimen using elemental and isotopical spectroscopy, particularly for Hydrogen and Oxygen isotopes, will enable oceanography specialists to assure the origin of water, whether it is coming from surface or deep sea-levels (below 3 km).