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Glacial Melt-Water Spillways near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

E. M. Yates
E. M. Yates
Affiliation:
University Of London, King's College, Strand, W.C. 2
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Abstract

As a result of the drainage contest between the Weaver headstreams and the headstreams of the Trent the west facing edge of the Potteries coalfield has been breached in a number of places, in particular at Kidsgrove. During the last retreat of the ice the Kidsgrove breach came ultimately to act as a spillway for the large lake contained between the ice and the coalfield. Before the breach was uncovered, however, a number of spillways were cut further east.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 92 , Issue 5 , October 1955 , pp. 413 - 418
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1955

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