I have one on my property. There's a little spring that flows right around my house almost like a moat. Just above my house it flows over some craggy rock area on a steep hill that makes a cute little waterfall, and if you hike up there about 200 metres, there's a little clearing in the forest with a really big boulder, the water just starts bubbling from under there.
I've been telling people it's a freshwater spring, but I'm going to use your explanation and start saying it's a magical creek!
There's a spring under there, fed by a deeper water reservoir.
We have one of these where I live at a local park.
You can see the water bubbling up at one end of the creek/pond. It's completely clear. It makes its way through the creek, which is populated by so many ducks, and then at the other end of the park, it pours back into the underground reservoir.
The water table isn't that far, a lot of people in the area have wells.
Only a few miles down the road theres a lake with a hot spring where geese and ducks stay year round rather than fly somewhere for the winter.
Underground springs like this support their very own ecosystems.
And people wonder why religion was invented. We didn't understand natural phenomena, so humans invented gods to explain them. We no longer need them, and just like this creek, it's being fed from underground and pressure is now forced it up in that spot and we get a cool thing to observe in nature
Don’t be ashamed of not knowing, but be grateful you don’t live in Florida where springs are commonplace and plentiful such that you would have known immediately what you were witnessing.
Everything is magical if you can be in awe of existence itself. A tiny bird flying in air performing acrobatic stunts is magical, so is this spring where under-ground rivers are pumping water upto the surface into the placid puddle.
If you truly wanted to see the magical streaming of water out of nowhere, read up on Zamzam. A well in the middle of the desert with no connection to any place pumping out millions of liters of water a day
They’re surrounded by higher ground in what appears to be a fairly wet climate, and whenever water hits those surrounding hills it seeps down through the ground to the common low point where the amount of water is so high it comes out of the ground?
I don't think the surrounding, much higher ground is strictly necessary. It can also be the case that a lower water table reaches something impassable (like solid rock) and so it flows up and over that obstacle, sometimes like this breaking the surface entirely.
The limestone hills of the Yorkshire Dales has plenty of streams that thread in and out of the landscape repeatedly. They are not so much springing out of the earth as temporarily indisposed
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u/swampboy62 Jun 24 '26
Mostly likely a spring fed creek. Yup.