Latest Images by Michael Dennis Stagg http://www.geograph.org.uk/ 2013-05-21T21:12:27GMT text/html 2012-08-18T21:05:59GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 51.526812 -2.051095 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3088041 Drainage contrast to the field marsh close to the River Avon, clear flowing and gravel strewn at the base, recently improved by clearing debris and reforming banks. Still containing water at some depth allowing wildlife to flourish. text/html 2012-08-18T21:01:46GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 51.526731 -2.050979 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3088035 Cotswold water on gravels on clays drained, this indicates the levels of water present at date, locally new ditch cut on the estate on the crossing to this sector toward the River Avon, typical of most of backslope Cotswold it explains why the River Avon floods plus all the urban storm drainage lower on the reach. text/html 2012-08-18T20:55:34GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 51.525697 -2.051670 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3088021 Seagry River Avon if it had not been for the levee this would have been near "bankfull" so the gravels did not show as in 1990 off the M4 view in passing. The vegetal mass is also greater so the stream channel seems more stable. text/html 2012-08-18T20:48:49GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 51.526232 -2.061689 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3088003 text/html 2012-08-04T05:47:48GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 51.897558 -2.075452 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3066112 The river cut and flood wall in Cheltenham flat backwater and cascade section, this is the Car Parking Zone finance and legal district theatre and Cav' upon which in 1972 students made a project of two stage channel flow (as ICE Hydrology Group, BHydroSc named it) Landscape Architecture for flood and recreation open ground. However commercial practice as ever seems to dominate common sense and Design, car parking and historical elements preserved instead. The project was somewhat US influenced by the tutor and well hydrology reviewed by lecturer. text/html 2012-08-04T05:31:48GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 51.983122 -2.176909 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3066111 The College has kindly placed warning markers on the side of its boat and nettles grip ramp so one can review the plain flood level by camera and standing height 1947 and 2007, somewhat higher than December 1972. Very good. text/html 2012-08-04T05:23:21GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 51.996600 -2.157401 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3066110 The preserved features of Tewkesbury reveal some of the reasons for the floods of Severn and canal cut which one wonders may be resolved downstream, there is a weir to the west and along with this complex of structures the channel system is at least an interwoven set of flow and soil units which could move water in several directions in a backwater off the lower Gloucester reaches. Strictly the river estuary is tidal Kidderminster and Worcester has the sense to be on a steep bluff. The Severn has a high discharge regime and adequate source low ground to the north added to this the tide will restrain all downstream flow except stream velocity. text/html 2012-07-22T13:48:01GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 52.010511 -3.112353 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3048139 The tributary streams are both incised and have flush site valley incision fill toward the main channel Afon Honddu headwaters. text/html 2012-07-22T11:46:09GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 52.008176 -3.121619 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3048078 The more massively bedded fractured sandstone north west of Gospel Pass Black Mountains text/html 2012-07-20T16:44:44GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 51.494162 -2.773036 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3046306 We site betwixt a deep channel scour the original name along the Malvern fault south and a promontory that protects from deflected Severn Wye Avon Avon scour in flood stream, possibly a result of foundering when it used to be west side of The Denny, and yet Port's Head The Battery is sheared and this the large dipping west or south west it provides a slide and erosion zone. text/html 2012-07-20T16:37:39GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 51.488721 -2.780002 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3046298 This is the only cliff we can boast as the upstream is ragged conglomerate and fallen haematite beds and blocks (1960 ff climbing) and almost without reach and the downstream is rugged conglomerate and somewhat laid back, so this is it. It is reputed to have once had a Devonian fish bone bed until excavated and there are other rumours of Permian landslide so the pebble bed works fall across the sandstone in a deep wedge. This appears better from t'other side. The rest belong to Redcliff and Clevedon until Exmoor is reached, that differs again as Dartmoor granite uplift displaced metamorphosed almost and steep dip. As I cannot quite see the petrological and lithological link between the Mendip Hills, Blackdown Pericline quartzite hard sandstone and this mixed bag of layers (bedding) we were taught, with the Limestone Shale Mendip and knowing Silurian runs into Old Red Sandstone as shale in Wales and there is no Middle, I withdraw from the conflict and aver this is a separate mass although joined by structural theory of projection in Geologic section, it must be a coastal form of an inland steadily forming sand basin that became infused with more quartz, sand cemented by precipitate quartz. This and the Permian make Portishead unique and the Triassic wadi at Mendip the more explicable. Originally everything was Red Sandstone and as with Torridon was divided, but there are many reasons why the parts should not! have been united across country since then. Best separate them with some new names for regions? text/html 2012-07-20T16:21:24GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 51.497174 -2.779858 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3046270 The dredger was wandering about the flats beyond The Denny which we consider to be land unfortunately washed by the Romano Transgression flood and the varied Wye Usk downpours roaring yellow brown sediment in the deep channel, or subsidence along the Malvern Fault, whatever?, whether Welsh or English is an issue as it is west of deep channel scouring Port's Head drain past The Battery, this is his approach run. We are open to negotiation with Newport rather alike the days of iron ore piers and bananas, but may have to run a barb wire fence down the middle? as certain Englishmen rowed out there in the early 1900s and the rats have owned it since then. Similar to Cyprus and Malvinas Hong Kong and Taiwan, but maybe one day they get it balanced? Masses of sediment today and a back current swirl in Port's Head esplanade embayment sending debris back upstream to be caught in the down estuary main stream charge, this of course ebb plus flood rivers. Highly turbulent and slack water. The social geography is for people bored with physical engineering geology and water which I dwell upon. text/html 2012-07-20T16:09:26GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 51.490387 -2.772828 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3046249 No you can't yes we can, Swans can do better, We make less noise than you Ducks do. Portishead Lake text/html 2012-07-20T16:05:57GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 51.490293 -2.773403 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3046242 Anything Cows can do we can do better, we can carousel better than Moo, And we can do it ... without mechanical assistance, we can Spin better than Party and We can party better than the Olympic Crew, Yes we can .... Portishead Lake in summer. Cross over the water to reference SH2334 : The Cefnamwlch Home Farm Milking Carousel, Friday 20th July 2012 The Front Page Geograph. text/html 2012-07-20T14:31:31GMT http://www.geograph.org.uk/profile/55063 Michael Dennis Stagg 52.016992 -3.102022 http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3046120 The east headwater of Afon Honddu, it needs a river name ?, Afon Dafad, showing the rill and gully basin and the afforested slopes beneath and at north. There are very rude people in England with Foul sites about the Welsh however I do not suppose those chicken (fowl) farmers could cope with Welsh Mountain weather and probably the most up and at it breeds of four footed woollies that even frighten Aus' shearers and Labour politicians during Foot and Mouth, unfortunate rendering of the farm disease started up by the Cornish animal transporters and NE England as a name Foot and mouth as we all made comment in the late 1970s, but then politicians and The English never learn, boyo. UCW 1969.