hyporheic

Jan. 27th, 2012 07:21 am
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hyporheic (heye-poh-REE-tik) - adj., in, of, or pertaining to the region of saturated sediment or bedrock below and around the bed of a running stream.


Where surface water and groundwater mix, as do nutrients and critters. This is a rather specialized term from hydrology (the study of water) coined by Traian Orghidan in 1959 from Greek roots hypo-, below and rheos, flow. Which is the main reason I ran this: "below the flow, dude."

---L.

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