• Source: Beaver Creek (Tinicum Creek tributary)

    • Beaver creek" target="_blank">Creek (Lenape name - Amochkhanne, Amoch=beaver, khanne=creek" target="_blank">creek) is a tributary of Tinicum creek" target="_blank">Creek in Bridgeton, Nockamixon, and Tinicum Townships in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The creek" target="_blank">creek is part of the Delaware River watershed.


    Statistics


    Beaver creek" target="_blank">Creek was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on 2 August 1979 as identification number 1169002, its identification number in the PA Gazetteer of Streams is 3241.


    Course


    Beaver creek" target="_blank">Creek rises in Bridgeton Township near Lonely Cottage Road at an elevation of approximately 540 feet (160 m) and runs generally southwest for 3.68 miles (5.92 km) until it meets its confluence at Tinicum creek" target="_blank">Creek's 6.41 river mile at an elevation of 226 feet (69 m). During its course it receives three tributaries from the left and three from the right. The average slope is 85.3 feet per mile (15.37 meters per kilometer).


    Geology


    Appalachian Highlands Division
    Piedmont Province
    Gettysburg-Newark Lowland Section
    Diabase
    Beaver creek" target="_blank">Creek's course is located in a region of diabase rock which intruded into the local sedimentary layers of the Brunswick and Lockatong Formations during the Jurassic and the Triassic, then the remaining course flows over the Brunswick Formation. Diabase is a dark gray to black, fine grained and very dense, consisting of primarily labradorite and augite.


    Crossings and Bridges




    See also


    List of rivers of the United States
    List of rivers of Pennsylvania
    List of Delaware River tributaries


    References

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