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Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (12684225705).jpg overlies 2 to 3 feet of imperfect peaty <br> matter which again appears to repose on similar detrital accumula- <br> tions This drift however is much water-worn and does not seem <br> to contain any masses of rock at all approaching to the dimensions of <br> those transported by the late flood <br> The following outline map shows the course of the stream and the <br> situation of the principal places referred to <br> Fig I ” Course of the River Holme and Bigley Stream <br> Fig 2 ” See p 229 <br> Between 1840 and 1844 an embankment 9Q feet high but which <br> afterwards subsided to 87 feet about 480 feet wide at base 16 feet <br> at top and 340 feet in length was thrown across the valley of the <br> Digley three miles above Holmfirth By this means an artificial lake <br> known as the Bilberry Reservoir about a quarter of a mile long <br> 300 to 400 feet broad with a surface of rather more than 1 1 acres <br> and in the centre from 70 to 80 feet deep was formed It was cal- <br> culated that when full this reservoir held 86 248 000 gallons of <br> water The dam was constructed of a wall of clay-puddle 8 feet wide <br> at top and 16 feet at bottom with a mass of the debris of the valley <br> consisting of earth and stones on either side The inner slope was <br> paved with squared stone and had a base 3 to 1 ; the outer slope a <br> base of 2 to 1 <br> On the night of the 4th of February last the giving way of this <br> embankment caused the sad catastrophe of which the papers have so 35461274 109911 51125 Page 226 Text v 8 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/35461274 1852 Geological Society of London Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 8 1852 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 35461274 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/35461274 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-02-21 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/12684225705 2015-08-27 12 57 18 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1852 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script
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