VII. Buried River Valleys in Clydesdale
1928; Zoological Society of London; Volume: 18; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1144/transglas.18.1.190
ISSN2052-9422
Autores Tópico(s)Ecology and biodiversity studies
ResumoIn a paper1 on the "Surface Geology of the Falls of Clyde District" read to this Society in 1899, the present writer pointed out that the Clyde Valley is wide and open as far up as the District in question, but that at Braxfield, it suddenly assumes the form of a deep, narrow, and in places, rocky defile, which continues for half a mile till it ends in a spacious basin, through which the river flows with a comparatively gentle current for over a mile, past the village and mills of New Lanark. At the head of this wide hollow the river emerges from a second defile bounded by precipitous rocky walls over 100 ft. in height. Some 400 yards above the entrance to this defile, at a sharp bend of the river, occurs the Fall of Cora Linn, consisting of two broken leaps of about 30 and 60 ft. respectively. Above this the river toils for half a mile along a series of rapids till we come to Bonnington Fall, a single leap of about 35 ft. Above this fall comes another, but shorter series of rapids, where the stream flows over broken edges of shelving sandstone: and beyond this the rock, for several miles, is no longer seen, the river pursuing a placid course through an alluvial tract of ground, between sloping banks and kames of sandy and gravelly drift. Near the lower end of this quiet reach the Clyde receives the waters of the Douglas from the This 250-word extract was created in the absence of an abstract
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