A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This overview essay provides highlights from more detailed essays describing drainage divide areas for the Iowa and Missouri Platte River drainage basin (which should not be confused with the Nebraska Platte River drainage basin, which is addressed by a separate overview essay and separate more detailed […]
Category archives for Iowa/Missouri Platte River
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Nodaway River-One Hundred and Two River drainage divide area in Andrew and Nodaway Counties, Missouri. The Nodaway and One Hundred and Two Rivers originate in southwest Iowa and flow into northwest Missouri as south oriented rivers. The Nodaway River flows across Nodaway and […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins for the West Nodaway River-Platte River drainage divide area located in Page, Taylor, Ringgold, and Adams Counties, Iowa. The West Nodaway River flows in a south direction across eastern Page County to join the southwest and south oriented East Nodaway River and to form the […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Des Moines River-Grand River drainage divide area located in Adair, Madison, Union, and Ringgold Counties, Iowa. The major drainage divide observed in the four county study region is the Middle River-Thompson River drainage divide, where the Middle River is a southeast and […]
Abstract: Topographic map evidence is used to interpret the Platte River-Thompson River drainage divide area located in Adair, Union, Ringgold, and Decatur Counties, Iowa. The Grand River is a south-southwest, southeast, and south oriented Missouri River tributary which originates between the south-southwest oriented Platte River drainage basin and the south-southeast oriented Thompson River drainage basin […]
Abstract: Topographic map evidence is used to interpret Missouri River-Platte River drainage divide area landform origins in Buchanan and Platte Counties, Missouri. The Platte River referred to in this essay originates in southern Iowa and flows in a south direction into northwest Missouri and then into eastern Buchanan County where it flows in a south […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation techniques are used to interpret drainage divide origins in the One Hundred and Two River-East Fork Grand River drainage divide area located in Nodaway, Worth, and Gentry Counties, Missouri. The study region is located in northwest Missouri along and/or near the Iowa-Missouri state line. Multiple south-oriented Missouri River tributaries, including the […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to interpret landform origins in the Platte River-Grand River drainage divide area of Gentry, Andrew, and De Kalb Counties, Missouri. The Platte River is a south-oriented Missouri River tributary flowing through eastern Andrew County and has south-oriented tributaries originating in southwest Gentry County and flowing through western De […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to interpret Platte River-Missouri River drainage divide area landform origins in Clinton and Clay Counties, Missouri. Clinton and Clay Counties are north of the southeast and east oriented Missouri River in the Kansas City, Missouri region and west of the south oriented Platte River, which joins the Missouri River […]
Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project 