The isolation that has made the Dinaric karst a hot spot of subterranean life since the end of the Ice Age is breaking down.
Geysers differ from non-eruptive hot springs in their subterranean structure; many consist of a small vent at the surface connected to one or more narrow tubes that lead to underground reservoirs of water and pressure tight rock.
"Subterranean developments are a red-hot potato in Chelsea.
An itinerant corset seller leaves his barrow to beckon me into the steamy subterranean baths: in the hot room is the tomb of a venerated 16th-century water-carrier.
Midtown, the subway gratings puff out their hot breath, testament to a busy subterranean life; but you could not guess that millions of books are housed under Bryant Park, and that beneath the ground runs a system of train tracks, like toys for a studious giant.
The central role of filamentous bacteria in the precipitation of iron in acid mine drainage environments,[12] subterranean environments[13] and acidic surface hot springs[14] is well known.
With the help of colleagues, he then came up with the first list of cave biodiversity hot spots those with at least 20 organisms specialized for subterranean life, according to the criteria they settled on.
In the second example, a sample collected from a New Mexican hot spring where the soil is heated continuously by subterranean water is compared with samples derived from the dry soils of the surrounding environment.
The geyser and hot springs activity at Yellowstone is probably typical, with a subterranean body of magma as the source of silica-rich hydrothermal solutions rising periodically near or to the surface.
When the frost ultimately retreats, in a warm rain or under a hot sun come spring, it will retreat with a load of subterranean stone in its grasp, creating a kind of thin, horizontal moraine across the pasture, and yet it will leave the beetle grubs where they lie.
