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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Cheney, PA is located in an east oriented East Branch Chester Creek valley segment and is located a short distance downstream from the confluence of south-southeast oriented East Branch Chester Creek with southeast oriented Goose Creek and a short distance upstream from where the East Branch Chester Creek turns to flow again in a south-southeast […]
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 […]
Ridley Creek originates in the Valleys Hills of East Goshen Township while the East Branch of Chester Creek originates a short distance to the west in West Goshen Township. From these closely spaced headwaters regions water flows along the separate, but roughly parallel, south-southeast and southeast oriented Ridley and Chester Creek drainage routes to eventually […]
Figure 1 illustrates the drainage divide area at Chester Heights between Chester Creek and West Branch Chester Creek and also illustrates at locations 1 and 2 two well-defined gaps (or notches) linking northeast oriented tributary valleys with southwest oriented tributary valleys. Note how Chester Creek flows in a southeast direction from the north center edge […]
Ridley Creek flows in a south-southeast direction along the west edge of Media and eventually reaches the southwest oriented Delaware River while Chester Creek flows in a southeast direction approximately 3 kilometers to the west and independently reaches the Delaware River. In addition to being two closely spaced and roughly parallel southeast oriented Delaware River […]
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