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On the Direction of Certain Valleys

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

K. Harrison  and
A. D. Thackeray
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In 1907 there appeared a memoir by F. W. Harmer, in which he suggested that a number of gorges—those at Malton and Ironbridge among them—might have originated as spillways consequent upon the blocking of the natural line of drainage by glaciers. A few years previously, Professor Kendall (1902) had interpreted some abandoned valleys in Yorkshire on the same hypothesis; a further exposition was given by Kendall and Wroot in 1924. In the present paper we propose a more fundamental origin for these channels.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 77 , Issue 2 , April 1940 , pp. 82 - 88
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1940

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