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The source of the river is located over above sea level in the Staffordshire moorlands, near to the Gritstone escarpment of the Roaches, and next to the A53 Leek to Buxton road and only a few hundred yards away from Black Brook which ultimately, through the Dane and Weaver, flows into the Irish Sea ; however the Churnet, through the Dove, Trent and Humber Estuary ultimately flows into the North Sea.
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The town lies on the Abens river, a tributary of the Danube, around eight kilometres from the river's source.
The river played an important role in the growth of the economy in the region during the 19th century as a source of transportation of goods.
* The River Bosna is the longest river in Bosnia and is fully contained within the country as it stretches from its source near Sarajevo to the river Sava in the north.
Moravia, the eastern part, is also quite hilly and is drained predominantly by the Morava river, but also contains the source of the Oder ( Czech: Odra ) river.
At flood, the river becomes an area flow source, far more than a narrow confined river.
At its source, the river is at an elevation of above sea level.
The Gröbenbach, which has its source south of Puchheim, runs through town coming from the south and merges into the Amper river at several locations near the festival grounds.
A karst spring in the Jura mountains near Ouhans in eastern France at the source of the river Loue
The average width along the river is 400 – 600 m. The widest places ( 1000 – 1250 m ) are in the delta, near the gates of Sea trading port, at the end of the Ivanovo rapids near the confluence of the river Tosna, and near the island Fabrinchny near the source.
Its source is just 240 km ( 150 mi ) inland from the Atlantic Ocean, but the river runs directly away from the sea into the Sahara Desert, then takes a sharp right turn near the ancient city of Timbuktu ( Tombouctou ) and heads southeast to the Gulf of Guinea.
The upper Niger, from the source past the trading city of Timbuktu to the bend in the current river, once emptied into a now-gone lake, while the lower Niger started in hills near that lake and flowed south into the Gulf of Guinea.
The northern part of the river, known as the Niger bend, is an important area because it is the closest major river and source of water to that part of the Sahara desert.
* The source of a river system
Batang Hari River is the longest river in the island with its source in Minangkabau highlands stretching around 800 kilometers eastward to its estuarine in Jambi lowlands.
Flowing more than 2, 500 kilometers to the Atlantic from its source in the Guiana highlands at the Brazilian border, the Orinoco is the world's eighth largest river and the largest in South America after the Amazon.
The Plaksa Prasravana ( place of appearance / source of the river ) may refer to a spring in the Siwalik mountains.
The distance between the source and the Vinasana ( place of disappearance of the river ) is said to be 44 asvina ( between several hundred and 1600 miles ) ( Tandya Br.
* Scottish Plymouth Brethren missionary Frederick Stanley Arnot identifies the source of the Zambezi river, near Kalene Hill.
Ancient Sparta was built on the banks of the Evrotas River, the main river of Laconia, which provided it with a source of fresh water.
In the current era, river waters remain a potential source of friction in the region.
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Lawrence Lipton, in The Holy Barbarians, stresses that for the beat generation sex is more than a source of pleasure ; ;
And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
It is more difficult with Faulkner than with most authors to say what is the extent and what is the source of his knowledge.
How literature does this, or for whom, is certainly not clear, but the content, form, and language of the `` message '', as well as the source, would all play differentiated parts in giving and molding a sense of purpose.
Without a precise knowledge of Germanic philology, however, it is debatable whether their use was not more often a source of confusion and error than anything else.
But the secretary insists that the success of the American farmer is the `` greatest single source of strength '' in the struggle to insure freedom around the world.
There is a trend to packaging meat at a central source, freezing it, and shipping it to outlying stores, where meat cutters will not be required.
As a source of investment capital, the system is beneficial to local communities and encourages the development of industries in rural areas.
In this hour of crisis, the wisdom, the dedication, the stabilizing force that he represents in current American government is an almost indispensable source of strength.
It is obvious that this is a potential and lucrative source of revenue for the assessors of those towns where a substantial amount of such property would be subject to taxation.
The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of ownership through use of land exchange authority and through purchase on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for recognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and National Grasslands.
The drill press consists of a vertical shaft ( spindle ) which is tapered or threaded on one end to hold a drill chuck, a tubular housing ( quill ) in which the spindle is mounted, a head in which the quill is mounted, a feed lever which moves the quill up or down, a power source, and a movable table upon which the work is placed.
With the source of light behind the copy, there is no loss of lumen output, as with conventional boards illuminated by means of reflected light.
Another important source of evidence only recently receiving much attention is the analysis of atmospheric dust for a meteoritic component.
It also provides a frame within which the registration of vital events is gradually gaining force ( though one cannot expect to obtain reliable vital statistics in most parts of the Congo from this source in the near future ).
In the new country the electoral process is considered as a means of resolving fundamental, and sometimes bitter, differences among leaders and also as a source of policy guidance.
Whatever the source of Rangoni's power, Marina is his captive now ; ;
Radiosterilization ( at 3 Mrad ) is more expensive than canning, particularly for the cesium-137 source.
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As in the case of Old Scatness in Shetland ( near Jarlshof and Burroughston on Shapinsay, brochs were sometimes located close to arable land and a source of water ( some have wells or natural springs rising within their central space ).
* Vent: A thin tube on the near end of the cannon connecting the explosive charge inside with an ignition source outside and often filled with a length of fuse ; always located near the breech.
The light from a source located at the top edge of the slit interferes destructively with a source located at the middle of the slit, when the path difference between them is equal to λ / 2.
Similarly, the source just below the top of the slit will interfere destructively with the source located just below the middle of the slit at the same angle.
This solution assumes that the delta function source is located at the origin.
If the source is located at an arbitrary source point, denoted by the vector and the field point is located at the point, then we may represent the scalar Green's function ( for arbitrary source location ) as:
The term “ far from sources ” refers to how far from the source ( moving at the speed of light ) any portion of the outward-moving EM field is located, by the time that source currents are changed by the varying source potential, and the source has therefore begun to generate an outwardly moving EM field of a different phase.
Within the capital is the Panopticon, under which is located the Eye of Harmony, the nucleus of a black hole that is their power source.
James Bruce travelled through Ethiopia and located the source of the Blue Nile.
John Hanning Speke located a source of the Nile at Lake Victoria.
Geometric arrangement for Fresnel's calculation Consider the case of a point source located at a point P < sub > 0 </ sub >, vibrating at a frequency f. The disturbance may be described by a complex variable U < sub > 0 </ sub > known as the complex amplitude.
; Noise: A single source of tractive power, which means only motors in one place, means that the train will be quieter than with multiple unit operation, where one or more motors are located under every carriage.
Secondly, they provide a known location for the information source to be located ( e. g. where it is shelved ).
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