Stream capture
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Stream capture, river capture, river piracy or stream piracy is a geomorphological phenomenon occurring when a stream or river drainage system or watershed is diverted from its own bed, and flows down
The River Thames as it passes through the Goring Gap
Goring Gap
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The Goring Gap is a topographical feature on the course of the River Thames. The Gap is located in southern England where the river, flowing from north to south, cuts through and crosses a line of cha
Stream capture
…later moved southwards again to its current position as a result of cutting through the Chiltern Hills at Goring-on-Thames, an event which created the Goring Gap. The Teays River, captured by the Ohio River…
Ancestral Thames - Early Pleistocene.
The Goring Gap on a summer's evening from Lardon Chase
The river and gap seen from Lardon Chase on a snowy January day, with the Chilterns in the background