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That resurgence is 1. re-emergence of karst ground water a part or all of whose waters are derived from surface inflow into ponors at higher levels [20]. point at which an underground stream reaches the surface and becomes a surface stream. in european literature, the term is reserved for the re-emergence of a stream that has earlier sunk upstream; the term exsurgence is applied to a stream without known surface headwaters [10]. synonyms: (french.) resurgence; (german.) karstquelle; (greek.) kephalari; (italian.) risorgenza; (russian.) vyhod karstovyh vod; (spanish.) resurgencia; (turkish.) sucikan; (yugoslavian.) krski izvor (vrelo), obrh. see emergence. compare exsurgence.?

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