{"id":354257,"date":"2026-01-17T14:27:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=354257"},"modified":"2026-01-17T14:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:57:39","slug":"finke-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/finke-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Finke River\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The Finke Riveris believed to be the world\u2019s oldest river system. Researchers say it began flowing between 300 and 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs walked the planet.<\/p>\n<h2>About Finke River<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th\/id\/R.6e514d7c1caed8b83cbed3a21dfcc081?rik=kke7DAYFGqTnFg&amp;riu=http%3a%2f%2fde.academic.ru%2fpictures%2fdewiki%2f76%2fLake_eyre_basin_map.png&amp;ehk=p9Zo1X%2bI7k76%2b%2fNzgiNg27lXdecjuThyf2DiAsgj9AI%3d&amp;risl=&amp;pid=ImgRaw&amp;r=0\" alt=\"Finke River\" width=\"249\" height=\"249\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: academic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"ignorediv\" class=\"Art-exp_wr\">\n<ul>\n<li>The Finke River is also called<strong> Larapinta <\/strong>in the<strong> Indigenous Arrente language<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> It is <strong>located in central Australia<\/strong> and <span style=\"color: #000000\">flows through<strong> the Northern Territory and <\/strong>the state of<strong> South Australia. <\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Origin:<\/strong> It originates in<strong> MacDonnell Ranges<\/strong> in Australia. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Formation:<\/strong> The river forms <strong>where two smaller creeks, Davenport and Ormiston meets.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Dating:<\/strong> It is the <strong>oldest riverbed in the world<\/strong> and <strong>also one of the four crucial waterbodies of Lake Eyre Basin.<\/strong><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\">This river system is dated in <strong>either the Devonian (419 million to 359 million) period or Carboniferous (359 million to 299 million) era.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Length:<\/strong> It runs for <strong>more than 640 km.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"588\"><span style=\"color: #000000\"><strong>Drainage:<\/strong> It forms an <strong>important part of the Lake Eyre Basin<\/strong>,<\/span> one of Australia\u2019s major drainage systems.<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"588\"><strong>Drainage pattern:\u00a0<\/strong>The river has a <strong>cross-axial drainage system or antecedent system. <\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"588\">It is a river system that <strong>cuts across geological structures rather than following them<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"588\">\u00a0The<strong> river is intermittent in nature<\/strong> and<strong> flows mainly after heavy rainfall.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li data-start=\"493\" data-end=\"588\">For most of the year, <strong>it appears as a series of isolated waterholes<\/strong> due to the arid climate.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Finke Riveris believed to be the world\u2019s oldest river system. Researchers say it began flowing between 300 and 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs walked the planet. About Finke River The Finke River is also called Larapinta in the Indigenous Arrente language. 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