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A SURVEY has been made of the podsolized soils, the morphology and the drainage of the areas known as Matlock Moor, Farley Moor, Tower Moor and Blackbrook Moor, which together form the larger part of the upper reaches or ‘source basin’ of the Bentley Brook, a tributary of the Derbyshire Derwent1.
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BUNTING, B. Bedrock Corrosion and Drainage Initiation by Seepage Moisture on a Gritstone Escarpment in Derbyshire. Nature 185, 447 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/185447a0
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