Category archives for Blue Hills (Kansas)

Saline River-Big Creek drainage divide area landform origins in Sheridan, Gove, Trego, and Ellis Counties, Kansas, USA

Abstract: The Saline River-Big Creek drainage divide area in Sheridan, Gove, Trego, and Ellis Counties, Kansas was eroded by massive south oriented floods derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet located north of the drainage divide region. The east-southeast oriented Big Creek valley eroded first headward from what was then the newly eroded Smoky […]