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The Eridanos river system, projected on the map of the present European continent (text in Dutch) Eridanos, derived from the ancient Greek Eridanos, is one name given by geologists to a river that flowed where the Baltic Sea is now. [1] Its river system is also known as the "Baltic River System". [2] [3]
A small river near Athens was named Eridanos in ancient times, and has been rediscovered with the excavations for construction of the Athens Metro.There were no serious scientific works that would investigate the connection of Eridanus with the Balkan hydronym for the river Drina, although such studies would be necessary, bearing in mind the ...
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The river was rediscovered during the excavations for the Athens Metro subway in the late 1990s, and its waters caused considerable technical problems at times. Because of the Metro works, its seasonal flow through the Kerameikos cemetery was disrupted, as the waters were apparently and inadvertently redirected to some new underground path.
In the Cenozoic, long before the Quaternary glaciations the Baltic was the site of a large river called Eridanos. This river drained westward towards the North Sea. The Neogene uplift of the South Swedish Dome deflected Eridanos river from its original path across south-central Sweden into a course south of Sweden in the Pliocene. [5]
The Po River, according to Roman word usage Eridanos (Athens) , a former river near Athens, now subterranean Eridanos (geology) , a former large river that flowed between forty million and seven hundred thousand years ago from Lapland to the North Sea through where the Baltic Sea is now
This is a List of rivers of Asia. It includes major, notable rivers in Asia. ... Penna River-India; Periyar River-India-Kerala; Rajang River - Malaysia - South China Sea;
Most of the rivers in India originate from the four major watersheds in India. The Himalayan watershed is the source of majority of the major river systems in India including the three longest rivers–the Ganges, the Brahmaputra and the Indus. [3] [4] These three river systems are fed by more than 5000 glaciers. [5]