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    In what direction can a river not flow?

    Question #84867. Asked by darkpresence. (Aug 23 07 4:16 PM)


    talbotbruno

    		Towards outer space?

    Aug 23 07, 4:19 PM
    zbeckabee

    		UP


    http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/mar97/858609276.Es.r.html

    Aug 23 07, 4:20 PM
    MonkeyOnALeash

    		Up slope. Toward the source.

    Aug 23 07, 5:26 PM
    jimincreek6

    		THe Chicago River flows upstream,

    Aug 23 07, 7:28 PM
    MonkeyOnALeash

    		Negative on the Upstream flow. Not in a Natural occurring body of water. In a Man-Made situation, because of waste concerns, this is possible.

    http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/timeline/riverflow.html

    Aug 23 07, 8:52 PM
    Arpeggionist

    		The answer is actually straight down, rather than up. While a river might flow upstream in mad-made situations, at any point where water is going straight down it is considered a waterfall, not a river.

    Aug 23 07, 9:39 PM
    darkpresence

    		Good answer, Arp! Good answers all, I was only hoping that someone would take the bait and say "north" but this was better.

    Aug 24 07, 1:26 PM
    MonkeyOnALeash

    		Nile flows North. Many do!

    As for straight down.....There are no waterfalls without rivers (bar glacial melt zones) so a waterfall IS part of a River and therefore rivers do, at points, flow straight down!

    Aug 24 07, 2:25 PM
    MonkeyOnALeash

    		Here are most....

    http://www.geocities.com/loisnotlane/rivers.html



    Aug 24 07, 2:27 PM

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