Hyporheic Definition

adjective

Beneath or alongside the bed of a stream, where water percolates through interstices between the rocks leading to mixing of groundwater and surface water.

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Origin of Hyporheic

  • Coined by Traian Orghidan in 1959 by combining two Greek words: hypo (below) and rheos (flow).

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