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Resurgence

A place where water that flowed underground returns to the surface, often as a spring in karst terrain. Tracer studies can link a resurgence to a distant sinking stream. The visible outlet does not reveal the whole underground route.

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Groundwater emerges at a karst spring in Alabama. Water stored in connected pores and fractures can return to the surface as spring flow.

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