more on both these dry denj tongues in messages 1525 &
10071 & 10078
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak"
<aletheiak@y...> wrote:
>
> interestingly
> this lesser bit of rive gauche delaware was not the direct result
of
> such an avulsion as killcohook was
>
> nor could accretion ever create any left bank delaware either
>
> rather it was merely an accident of the belated backswing
> following the 1934 supreme court decision
> of the same 12mile new castle arc that has caused delaware
to
> have a round top since 1683
>
> & it is precisely upon this lesser of the 2 dry denj segments
that
> denj shifts from the jersey shore to midchannel
> along this recent sequel to that ancient arc
> cutting off a preexisting but artificial protruding tongue of land
>
> a very funny thing
> & it all seems to have just happened by chance
>
> yet this sweep of 12mile arc was in fact badly mismeasured
>
> it would be a good topic in itself for further research
>
> the artificial island obviously predates the 1934 demarcation
> http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?lat=39.49917&lon=-75.54
> & please zoom out from there to get your bearings if necessary
>
> i couldnt find denj marker artificial 6
> tho i did find several of its mates
>
> of course i had to sneak in & out so it was kind of touch & go
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak"
> <aletheiak@y...> wrote:
> >
> > ron
> >
> > > Some of you in the USA may be aware that
> > > a little piece of land connected to New Jersey
> > > extends out into the Delaware River
> > > into the territory the state of Delaware.
> >
> > indeed this was mentioned as recently as this morning in
> 16638
> >
> > & there is a similar but smaller & less well known piece of
> > delaware connected to new jersey behind the salem nj
nuclear
> > plant where they dump their waste
> >
> > i have visited both of them
> >
> > with luck you will be able to see killcohook at the top & the
> other
> > bit sticking up at the bottom of this topo frame
> > http://tinyurl.com/5rv4a
> >
> > > Many years ago the US Army Corps of Engineers
> > > kept dumping dirt out in the river
> > > until it built up past the border.
> > > I don't think this was their intention;
> > > they just needed to dump a lot of dirt.
> >
> > hmm
> > i wonder if it was so unintentional tho
> >
> > the border there was formerly the natural riverbank itself
> >
> > so they couldnt have added any backfill that converted any
wet
> > new jersey into dry new jersey
> >
> > & i imagined all these additions were to protect the new
jersey
> > bank below them from the ravages of floods
> >
> > the dirt could easily have been dredged from the river too
> >
> > but like mark twain i dont really know either
> >
> > > This little tip of land is now part
> > > of the Supawna Meadows National Wildlife Refuge,
> > > formerly the Killcohook N. W. R.
> > >
> > > Approximately
> > > N 39º 25' 30' W 075º 26' 30
> >
> > > Speaking of great circle calculators
> > > on the "Russia Extremes..." thread
> > > (an interesting one), I have a freeware
> > > great circle/geodesic calculator GCGC
> > > on my web site below.
> > > GCGC has been accepted by the US NGS
> > > as "User Contributed Software."
> >
> > thanx
> > i love this stuff too
> >
> > can your tech improve on anything in it
> >
> > > Have fun.
> > >
> > > Cheers, 73,
> > >
> > > Ron McC.
> > > w2iol@a...
> > >
> > > Ronald C. McConnell, PhD
> > >
> > > WGS-84: N 40º 46' 57.9" +/-0.1"
> > > W 74º 41' 21.3" +/-0.1"
> > > FN20ps.77GU96 +/-
> > > V +5058 H +1504
> > >
> > > <http://home.earthlink.net/~rcmcc>
> > >
> > > I was gratified to be able
> > > to answer promptly, and I did.
> > > I said I didn't know.
> > > - Mark Twain