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This is cool. I used to drive past an example in Marlborough many years ago. I can't remember the name of the river now though.

I also came across a similar phenomenon where a retreating glacier caused a river to completely disappear.

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Jan 25Liked by Heather Wall

These essays just keep getting more and more interesting! Or at least to me since I love Geology and own three of those yellow State roadside geology books. This was fascinating to read since I know next to nothing about Eastern U.S geology! Must be fun to live on a fault!

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So glad you liked it! I got more and more excited as I researched and found out about these moving rivers. As for the fault, I'd like to look more into that. If there's a fault zone here, they're probably all over and people just don't realize it. We've never experienced earth tremors, but there were some reports of small activity many years ago. That's about all the excitement I'd want from living in a fault zone...

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