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South Branch Newport Creek
South Branch Newport Creek is a tributary of Newport Creek in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is long. The entire watershed of the creek is considered by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to be impaired. Mining has also been done in the watershed. Course South Branch Newport Creek begins in strip mines near the community of Wanamie in Newport Township. The headwaters are located north of Penobscot Mountain. The creek flows east for some distance before gradually turning north slightly west of the community of Alden. It then flows into the western part of Nanticoke, where it joins Newport Creek. Tributaries South Branch Newport Creek has one named tributary, which is known as Reservoir Creek. It also has an unnamed tributary. Hydrology At the headwaters of South Branch Newport Creek, the daily load of iron is . The concentration of iron at this location is 0.26 milligrams per liter. Downstream of UNTUnnamed tributary 28346, the dail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Branch Newport Creek Looking Downstream
South is one of the cardinal directions or Points of the compass, compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
