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| Keywords: The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London (13889177069).jpg T M KEADE OIT A DELTA IN MINIATURE <br> 263 <br> Yeaes' Woek By <br> E ead February 6 <br> 16 A Delta in Miniature TWENTr-SEVEN <br> T Mellaed Eeade Esq C E E G S <br> 1884 <br> Introductory The rate of sedimentary accumulation has in all <br> cases that I know of been calculated from the amount of sediment <br> held in suspension in river-water and the mean annual discharge <br> of the river <br> It is true history has furnished examples of towns that have <br> once been sea-ports becoming inland towns through the extension <br> of river-deltas ; but the information has not been sufficient or <br> accurate enough to found an estimate of the rate denudation has <br> proceeded at in the river-basins in question <br> The Rake-Brook Delta In June 1883 Mr Joseph Parry C E <br> who has charge of the Eivington Waterworks supplying Liverpool <br> called my attention to the great amount of deposit that had taken <br> place in the Eake reservoir since 1856 the year it was filled <br> On visiting the locality in his company I found that where the <br> two forks of the Rake Brook joined the reservoir a corner of the <br> reservoir was cut off by the public road from Bolton to Withnell the <br> communication being by a culvert stated to be 8 feet high under <br> the road but then nearly silted up with deposit The following <br> plan will explain my meaning more fully The whole corner of <br> the reservoir on the south side of the road at A on plan fig 1 was <br> Fig 1 Sketch Plan of Miniature Delta Bake JReservoir <br> Aclria was a sea-port in the time of Augustus ; it is now about 20 Italian <br> miles inland Havenna was also a seaport and is now about 4 miles from the <br> Lyell's ' Principles vol i p 425 10th edition <br> mam sea 36941052 113697 51125 Page 263 Text 40 http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/36941052 1884 Geological Society of London NameFound Augustus Biodiversity Heritage Library The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London v 40 1884 Geology Periodicals Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 36941052 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/36941052 smithsonian libraries Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-04-30 Check categories 2015 August 26 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/13889177069 2015-08-26 05 56 59 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London 1884 Photos uploaded from Flickr by FĂŚ using a script | ||||
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