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(hydrology, of a basin or lake) Draining through invisible, subterranean outflows..
A reasonable deduction would be that under karst (cryptorheic) conditions no surface streams would exist and that we should not look for a "drowned" surface drainage pattern.
Sonoran — extends from Río Sonoyta to the Río Yaqui and intervening small basins, most of them cryptorheic, through desert and semi-desert areas, west of the Sierra Madre Occidental.
One of these is the cryptorheic basin (hidden river) in the Yucatan State, north of Quintana Roo.
Use cryptorheic when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cryptorheic means (hydrology, of a basin or lake) Draining through invisible, subterranean outflows..
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A reasonable deduction would be that under karst (cryptorheic) conditions no surface streams would exist and that we should not look for a "drowned" surface drainage pattern.
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