OCR Text |
Show 3281 Dent- 1306 your Honor. I say that the swift river puts everything in a turmoil, the condition that you find at any time is a condition of maximum stability. In other words, the river stirs things up, and it falls into some accidental form. If that accidental form is a stable form, capable of resisting the forces of the river more than some other form does, then it lasts for a longer time, and we are more likely to find it when we are investigating. The permanent form -- every sedimentary river has a form that is so wide and so shallow that regardless of slops, local slope -- you understand a slope is not continu-ous, it is series of steps -- the permanent form is one that the local slope is unable to move sediment, which means a very wide and very shallow form. even though the slope is steep. THE SPECIAL MASTER: That is all. MR. BLACKMAR: Will there be anything further re-quired of Colonel Dent? MR. FARNSWORTH: No. MR. BLACKMAR: There is a government document by Gilbert which deals with this question of transportation of sediment. It is not in evidence, but I think it is a technical work which your Honor would have a right to con-sider, even though it was not in evidence. However, we will out it in, and give you a copy of it. |