Water gaps are formed where a stream or river has cut a valley across some type of ridge. Pennsylvania’s water gaps are often associated with where streams and rivers have cut what are sometimes spectacular water gaps in the state’s Valley and Ridge Province. Often overlooked are numerous, but somewhat less specular water gaps found […]
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Christiana is a small community located about 50 miles west of Philadelphia and just north of a water gap where East Branch Octoraro Creek headwaters cross the North Valley Hills. South of that water gap the East Branch Octoraro Creek flows across the east-northeast oriented Chester Valley and then flows through another water gap as […]
While there is no common point the Susquehanna, Delaware, and Schuylkill River drainage basins are very close to each other in the Honey Brook Basin, which is located between Welsh Mountain and the Baron Hills. Pequea Creek originates in the Honey Brook Basin and after flowing in a southeast direction turns to flow in a […]
Pequea Creek originates on the Welsh Mountain southeast flank and flows in a southeast direction before turning to flow in a west and southwest direction to eventually join the Susquehanna River. The West Branch Brandywine Creek also originates along the Welsh Mountain southeast flank, although east of the Pequea Creek headwaters, and flows in a […]
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