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Title: A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Brooks, Leonard
Subjects: Geography
Publisher: London, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ese newerrocks do not, however, form a continuous level surface,for in places the older rocks of the floor stand out abovethe general level (see Fig. 20), as in North Leicestershire,North Warwickshire and South Staffordshire ; and sincethese older rocks are the coal measures we have thusseveral coal-mining areas. It is probable that coalextends beneath all the younger measures and may bemined where the depth is not too great. The Trent rises on the south-west flanks of thePennines, and after bending round their southern marginsturns northwards to join the Yorkshire Ouse in their com-bined drowned estuary called the Humber (see Fig. 34).On the left bank it receives swift-flowing Pennine feeders,such as the Dove and the Derwent; whilst on its right Ii8 THE BRITISH ISLES bank it is joined by the sluggish rivers flowing fromthe low, oolitic limestone hills which continue the lineof the Cotswolds in a north-easterly direction. Most ofthe water carried to the H umber by the Trent is brought
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iLand over300 feetCoalfieldsScale of Miles2 JL JL -ZP IHh tIAl IA CO., i.IL>.. LONL>U)l. Y\r,. 3;.—The Midlands and the Bnsin of the Trent. by the Pennine streams. Indeed, it is common for theplains adjoining the lower course of the main stream tobe in serious danger of inundation at a time Avhen littlerain is falling locally, but when heavy rains are beingexperienced in the region of the Pennine sources.Notice the river Witham whose upper course is parallel THE MIDLANDS 119 to that of the Trent. At Lincoln the Witham flowsthrough a gap cut in the oolitic ridge, and then flowssouth-eastwards to the Wash. It is believed that thiswas once the lower course of the Trent. Occupations of the Trent Basin. On the coalfields, the development of great industrieshas led to the growth of large centres of population.Elsewhere, pastoral and agricultural occupations arefollowed, for the soils of the Red Plain are very fertile.The North Staffordshire Coalfield, situated on the south-western f

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