Quicksand can be found in all 50 states, says Stephen Obermeier, a civil engineer with the US Geological Survey in Reston, Va . It's found in areas of artesian springs, in river valleys and in swamps.
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The desert pupfish isn't even cute and won't rise to the dry fly, but its life depends on that rarest of environments, artesian springs in the middle of the Great American Desert, springs threatened by agricultural draw-down of the underlying aquifer.
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McConnell Springs is the only known site in Fayette County that has a series of artesian springs that come to the surface, go underground, reappear, flow on the surface and go back underground only to surface again a couple miles away.
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He left Adelaide with a small party in August 1859 . Having surveyed his own claim and several new claims on behalf of his sponsors, Stuart spent the spring and summer exploring the area west of Lake Eyre, finding several more artesian springs.
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This is a tormented journeyman actor, guilty over leaving his dreary wife and adored children, playing with the words that bubble from his brain like water from an artesian spring, pushed into writing only because Robin Greene and Christopher Marlowe ignore their commitments.
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Along the fault in the city, a string of artesian springs known as Comal Springs give rise to the Comal River, which is known as one of the shortest rivers in the world, as it winds through the city before meeting the Guadalupe River.
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Reliable areas of warm water in Florida are generally the result of discharge from power plants, but newer plants with more efficient cooling systems may disrupt the pattern of warm water refuges, and an increased demand for artesian springs for water, the natural source of warm water, decreases the number of warm water refuges.
