This is a landform in karst areas where the river valley has no obvious exit. In this landform, the surface water disappears into a cave at a steep wall near the end of a valley and becomes a subterranean waterflow or underground river. This blind valley landform is often located near the contact between soluble and non-soluble rocks, where streams on non-soluble rock tend to flow into the ground when they reach soluble rock strata (Fig. 18).
Blind valley landscape –Yanwang Groove, Wulong, Chongqing
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(2020). Blind Valley. In: Chen, A., Ng, Y., Zhang, E., Tian, M. (eds) Dictionary of Geotourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2538-0_180
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