Category archives for Cottonwood River (Kansas)

Smoky Hill River-North Cottonwood River drainage divide area landform origins in Saline, Dickinson, Mc Pherson, and Marion Counties, Kansas, USA

Abstract: The Smoky Hill River-North Cottonwood River drainage divide area in Saline, Dickinson, Mc Pherson, and Marion Counties, Kansas was eroded by immense south-oriented floods which flowed from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet into Kansas. Flood waters were captured by deep southeast and east oriented valleys that eroded headward across Kansas from the […]