• Landform
  • Hydrological form

estavelle

1.

estavelle : An intermittent resurgence or exsurgence, active only in wet seasons. May act alternatively as a swallow hole and as a rising according to ground-water conditions.

Monroe, 1970

2.

The term estavelle was first used in the Jura but is now used fairly widely for a hole which is at one time of the year a swallow hole and at another time a spring.

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FUNCTION May act alternatively as a swallow hole and as a rising according to ground-water conditions
intermittent resurgence or exsurgence