Jordan Valley

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  • The city in Oregon, United States is named after prospector Michael M. Jordan.
  • The area in Hong Kong is named after Gregory Paul Jordan.

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Jordan Valley

  1. A city in Malheur County, Oregon, United States.
  2. An area in Kwun Tong district, Hong Kong.
    • 1999 June 24, “Flats approved despite gas”, in South China Morning Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 September 2023[2]:
      A housing development in Jordan Valley will go ahead despite faultlines and landfill gas, legislators were told yesterday.
    • 2017, Dingxiang Zou, “Geology”, in Theory and Technology of Rock Excavation for Civil Engineering[3], →DOI, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 33:
      Two sets of joints intersect at an angle to form a wedge failure on the free face of the blasting bench may cause flyrock due to the reduction of burde. Figure 1.38 shows a flyrock accident in the project of Jordan Valley, Hong Kong, in 2003.

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