Category archives for Big Piney River (Missouri)

Gasconade River-White River drainage divide area landform origins in Texas County, Missouri, USA

Abstract: The Gasconade River-White River drainage divide area in Texas County, Missouri is a north-south oriented drainage divide between the north-oriented Big Piney River drainage basin on the west and the southeast-oriented Current river drainage basin on the east with the south-oriented North Fork White River drainage basin west of the Big Piney River drainage […]

Gasconade River-Big Piney River drainage divide area landform origins in Laclede, Pulaski, and Texas Counties, Missouri, USA

Abstract: The Gasconade River-Big Piney River drainage divide in Laclede, Pulaski, and Texas Counties, Missouri was eroded during a massive reversal of immense south-oriented floods. Flood waters were derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet and for a time flowed south across Laclede, Pulaski, and Texas Counties to what was then the newly […]

Gasconade River-Current River drainage divide area landform origins in Dent and Texas Counties, Missouri, USA

Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determine landform origins in the Gasconade River-Current River drainage divide area located in Dent and Texas Counties, Missouri. The Gasconade River is a north-northeast oriented Missouri River tributary with north-oriented tributaries, including the Big Piney River, which with its tributaries (mostly oriented in northwest directions) in the […]