Glacial Melt-Water Spillways near Kidsgrove, Staffordshire
- 1 April 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Geological Magazine
- Vol. 92 (5) , 413-418
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800064529
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.Keywords
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