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Uskelanjoki is a river of
Uskelanjoki is a river of Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
. It flows into the Archipelago Sea
The Archipelago Sea ( fi, Saaristomeri, sv, Skärgårdshavet) is a part of the Baltic Sea between the Gulf of Bothnia, the Gulf of Finland and the Sea of Åland, within Finnish territorial waters. By some definitions it contains the largest ar ...
through the town of Salo Salo or Salò may refer to:
Places Finland
*Salo, Finland, a town in Western Finland
**Salo sub-region, a subdivision of Finland Proper and one of the Sub-regions of Finland since 2009
*An old name of Saloinen, a former municipality in Ostroboth ...
. The course of the river follows a large, NE–SW oriented bedrock
In geology, bedrock is solid Rock (geology), rock that lies under loose material (regolith) within the crust (geology), crust of Earth or another terrestrial planet.
Definition
Bedrock is the solid rock that underlies looser surface mater ...
fracture line which begins from the river estuary in Halikonlahti bay and goes up through the lower reaches of the river and its tributary Terttilänjoki in north. Other tributaries of Uskelanjoki are Rekijoki and Hitolanjoki in north, Kurajoki in Pertteli
Pertteli (); sv, S:t Bertils) is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Salo on January 1, 2009.
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality had a population ...
and Vähäjoki near Salo. Landslide
Landslides, also known as landslips, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, deep-seated grade (slope), slope failures, mudflows, and debris flows. Landslides occur in a variety of ...
s are common in the area, and for example in 1825 the church of Uskela
Uskela is a former municipality of Finland.
It was merged into Salo in 1967. Many municipalities surrounding Uskela were split from it. In 1967 Uskela and part of Halikko were merged to the rapidly growing Salo which needed more area.
It borde ...
that stood on the edge of the river was destroyed by a landslide that occurred on Christmas eve
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.
See also
*List of rivers of Finland
This is a list of rivers of Finland. Listing begins with rivers flowing into the Baltic sea, from the north, that is from the Swedish border. Tributaries are listed down the page in an upstream direction.
Water flows from Finland directly to the B ...
Sources
* Aartolahti, Toive: The morphology and development of the river valleys in Southwestern Finland, pp. 8–9. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae. Series A. III. Geologica–Geographica 116. Helsinki: Suomalainen tiedeakatemia 1975. * Topelius, Zacharias: ”Maanvieremiä Uskelassa”, Maamme kirja. 38. edition. Porvoo: WSOY, 1934.External links
Rivers of Finland Drainage basins of the Baltic Sea Salo, Finland Landforms of Southwest Finland {{Finland-river-stub