A newly published book titled “The Topographic Map Mystery:Geology’s Unrecognized Paradigm Problem” discusses in considerable detail the problems geomorphologists have encountered when trying to explain topographic map drainage system and erosional landform evidence (such as is discussed on this website) and describes a new and fundamentally diffrent Cenozoic geology and glacial history paradigm which is […]
This website shows research notes taken during the Missouri River drainage basin landforms origin research project. Papers related to the project are now being written and submitted to various scientific journals for review and publication. The following list shows the open access papers related to the Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project that […]
This geomorphologyresearch.com web site contains essays related to the Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project. A catalog of Philadelphia area erosional landforms is being constructed at phillylandforms.info
Abstract: Multiple deep passes crossing the present-day east-west continental divide and numerous south-oriented tributaries flowing to the present-day north-oriented Gallatin, Madison, Jefferson-Beaverhead-Red Rock, and Missouri Rivers provide evidence the Gallatin, Madison, and Jefferson-Beaverhead-Red Rock valleys originated as diverging channels in a large-scale south-oriented anastomosing channel complex that was subsequently reversed to form the present-day north-oriented Gallatin, […]
The following essay briefly outlines alternative hypotheses considered and evidence investigated prior to undertaking the Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project, which is based entirely on previously unstudied topographic map evidence. Each phase of my study described here is documented by communications submitted to the North Dakota Academy of Science and/or by abstracts […]
The Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project is the first known scientific expedition of discovery to systematically study detailed topographic map evidence for all major drainage divide areas within and surrounding the Missouri River drainage basin and in a sense is a modern-day equivalent of historical voyages of discovery where explorers traveled […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the South Platte River-Plum Creek drainage divide area in the Rampart Range, Colorado. The South Platte River flows west of the Rampart Range in a north-northeast direction to the north end of the Rampart Range and then flows in a northeast direction […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Cherry Creek-Plum Creek drainage divide area in Douglas County, Colorado. Cherry Creek is a north and northwest oriented stream joining the north-northeast oriented South Platte River at Denver. Plum Creek is formed at confluence of northeast, north, and northwest oriented East […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Kiowa Creek-Bijou Creek drainage divide area on the Colorado Piedmont. Kiowa Creek and Bijou Creek are two of several north and north-northeast oriented streams located east of the north-northeast oriented South Platte River segment, which is located east of the Colorado […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Bijou Creek-Beaver Creek drainage divide area in Adams, Arapahoe, Elbert, and Washington Counties, Colorado. Bijou Creek and Beaver Creek are north oriented tributaries to northeastern Colorado’s north-northeast, southeast, east, and northeast oriented South Platte River with Beaver Creek located east of […]
Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project 