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Geographic Names Information System 1189974. Turtle Creek, is also known as Turtle Run. This name appears on Patton's Philadelphia and Suburbs Street and Road Map of 1984.
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land occur to the north of its valley. In its lower reaches, the surficial geology of the creek mostly features
Wisconsinan Bouldery Till and Wisconsinan Ice-Contact Stratified Drift, which contains stratified
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Conyngham Township. It flows west-southwest for approximately a mile and a half (2.5 kilometers) alongside Lee Road before passing through a
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Shickshinny. However, the source is in the quadrangle of Nanticoke. The drainage basin is part of the Lower North Branch Susquehanna drainage basin.
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Surficial geology of the
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of Turtle Creek has an area of 1.59 square miles (4.1 km). The mouth of the creek is in the
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642:Water Resources Inventory Report ..., Parts 1-5
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46:Physical characteristics
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782:Rivers of Pennsylvania
566:Newport, T.G. (1971).
343:Pennsylvania Route 239
619:Pennsylvania Bulletin
251:Geography and geology
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177:Progression
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766:Categories
429:References
194:Turtle Run
164:Basin size
121:76°08′40″W
118:41°08′33″N
363:watershed
357:Watershed
328:basal ice
276:sandstone
261:sea level
239:Hydrology
230:Mocanaqua
224:or small
198:tributary
405:See also
347:aluminum
305:alluvium
288:boulders
397:Biology
373:History
351:culvert
272:bedrock
200:of the
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339:bridge
301:gravel
265:source
216:Course
156:Length
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280:shale
257:mouth
88:Mouth
23:River
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385:The
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299:and
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