Underground Rivers - University of New Mexico

Contrapositioned topography does
not imply contrapositioned rivers.
The greatest river of a world
contrapositioned to ours would drain
that sphere's Pacific continent
eastward from mountains paralleling
our upper-world Mariana trench.
Our Mississippi would appear as a
minor embossed ridge along the bed
of the subterranean American sea.
Conclusions
Chapter 26 -- Subterranean Water Bodies
No geophysical theory or literary fantasy of subterranean adventure seems to be without water.
We can't conceive of an interior world that's dry. We'll explore the "why?" of this in Chapter 90,
Why Do We Believe What We Believe?
Let us summarize the myriad of subterranean water body possibilities we've seen proposed.
1. Underground waters could be in an ordinary cave, on the inner side of the earth's shell or even
on an inner globe.
2. The behavior of underground water might mimic that with which we are familiar, could be
different in issues of scale, e.g. fall faster or slower, or could behave in bizarre fashion.
We've no paucity of possibilities to ponder.
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