Multiple wind gaps (or water-eroded notches) carved in the West Branch Chester Creek-Brandywine Creek divide east and south of Chadds Ford, PA and north of the Delaware border provide evidence that multiple channels of flood flow moved in a southwest direction to the south oriented Brandywine Creek valley prior to headward erosion of the east, […]
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The East Branch Chester Creek is located slightly east of West Chester and originates in the Valley Hills north of West Chester before flowing in a south-southeast direction with a jog to the east at West Chester Reservoir to eventually join the West Branch Chester Creek (which originates south of West Chester) to form southeast […]