The divide between West Branch Red Clay Creek and the East Branch White Clay Creek near Kennett Square is crossed by at least two former west-southwest oriented water flow channels. The southern former channel east end is drained by a north, east-northeast and southeast oriented tributary to the West Branch Red Clay Creek while the […]
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Longwood Gardens near Kennett Square in Chester County is located on the drainage divide between Brandywine Creek to the east and Red Clay Creek to the west. A former east-to-west oriented water flow channel crosses the present-day Brandywine Creek-Red Clay Creek divide on the Longwood Gardens grounds on the north side of the main conservatory […]
This inventory identifies Bucks County’s most obvious water gaps by township as seen on 1:24,000-scale United States Geological Survey topographic maps and is not complete. Bucks County streams cross rock layers of varying resistance to erosion and many less obvious water gaps exist. Only townships containing the most obvious water gaps are listed here. Bedminster […]
This inventory identifies most of each township’s obvious barbed tributaries and elbows of capture as seen on 1:24,000-scale United States Geological Survey topographic maps, but should not be regarded as being complete. Also many of the barbed tributaries and elbows of capture are best seen and understood by observing the evidence in an area much […]
This inventory identifies each township’s most prominent hills, their elevations, and the nature of the bedrock forming the hill. Hills listed here are the named hills named on 1:24,000-scale United States Geological Survey topographic maps. Many Bucks County townships contained no named hills and if none were found that is indicated here Bedminster Township Relief […]
This inventory is an effort to identify each township’s most prominent through valley, or through valleys and many less prominent through valleys are not included. The through valleys provide evidence of former drainage routes that can best be explained in the context of massive and prolonged southwest oriented floods that were sequentially captured by headward […]
Two completely different Valley Creeks originate almost adjacent to each other in the South Valley Hills near Glenloch (between Malvern and Exton) and then flow parallel to each other in a north direction in deep narrow valleys down a steep slope onto the west-southwest to east-northeast oriented Chester Valley floor where the eastern Valley Creek […]
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