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Cattle grazing below high water, Isle of Dogs, 1792 (Robert Dodd, detail: National Maritime Museum) The Embanking of the tidal Thames is the historical process by which the lower River Thames, at one time a shallow waterway, perhaps five times broader than today, winding through malarious marshlands, has been transformed by human intervention into a deep, narrow tidal canal flowing between ...
An embankment is a raised wall, bank or mound made of earth or stones, that are used to hold back water or carry a roadway. A road , railway line , or canal is normally raised onto an embankment made of compacted soil (typically clay or rock-based) to avoid a change in level required by the terrain , the alternatives being either to have an ...
Location: Alleghany County, near Kincaid, Virginia: Coordinates: 1]: Construction began: 1974: Opening date: 1979: Operator(s): U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Dam and spillways; Type of dam: Embankment, rock-fill: Impounds: Jackson River: Height: 257 feet (78 m): Length: 1,310 feet (400 m): Width (base): 32 feet (9.8 m) (crest) 1,000 feet (300 m) (base): Reservoir; Creates: Lake Moomaw: Total ...
The James River Gorge is a water gap created by the James River in Central Virginia.The Gorge is 2,433 feet (742 m) [1] deep as measured from Highcock Knob 3,073 feet (937 m) [1] to the James River 640 feet (200 m) [1] and is approximately 9.3 miles (15.0 km) [2] long.
Water gaps of Virginia (7 P) Wind gaps of Virginia (18 P) Pages in category "Valleys of Virginia" ... Between the Hills; Burke's Garden, Virginia; C. Catoctin Valley;
The Virginia Barrier Islands forming a line along the eastern coast of Delmarva.. The Virginia Barrier Islands are a continuous chain of long, narrow, low-lying, sand and scrub barrier islands separated from one another by narrow inlets and from the mainland by a series of shallow marshy tidal bays along the entire coast of the Virginia end of the Delmarva Peninsula.
View from the Split Rock overlook. The Appalachian Trail (AT) traverses the peak before descending its northwestern slope to the Shenandoah River and Harpers Ferry. A spur trail called the Loudoun Heights Trail (the original route of the AT) leads off the AT down the northern slope, passing by Civil War earthworks and providing good views of the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah as well ...
Burke's Garden is an upland valley and unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Virginia. It is surrounded by the Garden Mountain Cluster , wild areas in the national forest recognized by the Wilderness Society as "Mountain Treasures", areas that are worthy of protection from logging and road construction.