A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence This essay is an overview of more detailed essays using topographic map evidence to illustrate and interpret landform origins in the Missouri River drainage basin segment between Sioux City, Iowa and Kansas City, Missouri. The detailed essays can be found under IA Missouri River, KS Missouri River, […]
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A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay provides an overview of detailed essays describing landform origins along drainage divides in and adjacent to the Nebraska and Kansas Big Blue River drainage basin. The detailed essays can be found under Big Blue River on this website’s sidebar category list. All interpretations in […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay is an overview of more detailed essays using topographic map evidence to interpret Republican River drainage basin landform origins. The more detailed essays can be found under Republican River on this website’s sidebar category list. All interpretations in this essay and in the more […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay provides highlights from more detailed essays using topographic map evidence to interpret Solomon River drainage basin landform origins. The detailed essays can be found under Solomon River on this website’s sidebar category list. All interpretations of Solomon River drainage basin history in this overview […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay provides highlights from more detailed essays describing drainage divide origins for Kansas River and tributary drainage divide areas. The more detailed essays can be under Kansas River on this website’s sidebar category list. All interpretations are based on topographic map evidence, which is illustrated […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay provides highlights from more detailed essays describing origins of drainage divides surrounding the Kansas Saline River drainage basin. The more detailed essays can be found under Saline River on this website’s sidebar category list. Interpretations in this overview essay and in detailed essays contained […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This is an overview essay providing highlights from detailed essays describing drainage divide origins within and surrounding the Colorado and Kansas Smoky Hill River drainage basin. The detailed essays can be found under Smoky Hill River on this website’s sidebar category list. All interpretations of drainage […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This is an overview essay providing highlights from more detailed essays illustrating and describing the origin of the Marais des Cygnes River and tributary valleys and their drainage divides. The more detailed essays can be found under Marais des Cygnes River on this website’s sidebar category […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This overview essay provides highlights from a series of more detailed essays in which topographic map evidence is interpreted to determine Osage River drainage basin landform origins. The more detailed essays are found under Osage River on this website’s sidebar category list. The Osage River is […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: The South Fork Big Nemaha River-Missouri River drainage divide area in Richardson County, Nebraska and Nemaha, Brown, and Doniphan Counties, Kansas was eroded by massive southeast and south oriented floods. Flood waters were probably derived from a rapidly melting thick North American ice sheet located north and […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determined that the Delaware River-Missouri River drainage divide area in Brown, Doniphan, and Atchison Counties, Kansas was eroded by massive southeast and south oriented floods at the time the Missouri River and Delaware River valleys and their tributary valleys […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay uses topographic interpretation methods to determine landform origins in the Delaware River-Missouri River drainage divide area located in Jefferson, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte Counties, Kansas.The Delaware River-Missouri River drainage divide area in Jefferson, Leavenworth, and Wyandotte Counties, Kansas was eroded by massive south, southeast, and […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: The Big Blue River-South Fork Big Nemaha River drainage divide in Pawnee County, Nebraska and Marshall and Nemaha Counties, Kansas was eroded by immense southeast and south oriented floods, which were probably derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet. The present day north-oriented South-Fork Big […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: The Big Blue River-Delaware River drainage divide area in Pottawatomie and Jackson Counties, Kansas is drained by several south-oriented rivers and streams, all of which flow to the east-oriented Kansas River. These rivers and streams from west to east are the Big Blue River, Rock Creek, […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: The Mill Creek (Big Blue River)-Republican River (Kansas River) drainage divide area in Washington, Clay, and Riley Counties, Kansas was eroded by massive south-oriented floods as the deep Kansas River-Republican River valley and the deep Big Blue River-Little Blue River valley and their tributary valleys eroded […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: Immense south-oriented floods eroded the Little Blue River-Republican River drainage divide area in Nuckolls and Thayer Counties, Nebraska and Republic County, Kansas. Flood waters were probably derived from a rapidly melting thick North American ice sheet. Flood waters were captured by headward erosion of the southeast-oriented […]
Abstract: The Republican River-Solomon River drainage divide area in Cloud, Ottawa, Clay, and Dickinson Counties, Kansas was eroded by immense south-oriented floods. Flood waters were probably derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet and flowed across Nebraska into Kansas and at one time flowed further south. Headward erosion of the east-oriented Kansas River […]
Abstract: The Republican River-Solomon River drainage divide area in Nuckolls County, Nebraska and Jewell and Mitchell Counties, Kansas is located in south central Nebraska and north central Kansas and was eroded by massive south-oriented floods. Flood waters were probably derived from a rapidly melting ice sheet and flowed across Nebraska and into Kansas. This essay illustrates […]
Abstract: The Republican River-North Fork Solomon River drainage divide area in Franklin and Webster Counties, Nebraska and Smith County, Kansas was eroded by immense south-oriented floods. Flood waters were derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet. Headward erosion of what was then a deep southeast-oriented North Fork Solomon River valley captured south-oriented flood […]
Abstract: The Republican River-Prairie Dog Creek drainage divide area in Furnas and Harlan Counties, Nebraska and Norton and Phillips County, Kansas was eroded by massive south-oriented flood flow. Flood waters were probably derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet and flowed south across Nebraska and into Kansas. Missouri River tributary valleys eroded headward […]
Abstract: The Prairie Dog Creek-North Fork Solomon River drainage divide area in Norton and Phillips Counties, Kansas was eroded by immense south-oriented flood flow, which flowed across Nebraska and into Kansas. Flood waters were probably derived from a rapidly melting thick North American ice sheet, which had been located in what had been an ice […]
Abstract: The Republican River-Beaver Creek drainage divide area in Hitchcock and Red Willow Counties, Nebraska and Rawlins and Decatur Counties, Kansas was eroded by immense south and/or southeast oriented floods. Flood waters were probably derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet and initially flowed across a topographic surface at least as high as […]
Abstract: The Beaver Creek-South Fork Solomon River drainage divide area in Red Willow County, Nebraska and Decatur and Sheridan Counties, Kansas consists of the Beaver Creek-Sappa Creek drainage divide, the Sappa Creek-Prairie Dog Creek drainage divide, the Prairie Dog Creek-North Fork Solomon River drainage divide, the North Fork Solomon River-Bow Creek drainage divide, and the […]
Abstract: The North Fork Solomon River-South Fork Solomon River drainage divide in Norton, Phillips, Smith, Graham, Rooks, and Osborne Counties, Kansas was eroded by massive south-oriented floods which originally flowed across a topographic surface at least as high as the highest present day North Fork Solomon River-South Fork Solomon River drainage divide elevations. Flood waters […]
Abstract: The Republican River-Little Beaver Creek drainage divide area in Dundy and Hitchcock Counties, Nebraska and Cheyenne and Rawlins Counties, Kansas was eroded by immense south-southeast or southeast oriented floods. Flood waters were probably derived from a rapidly melting thick North American ice sheet and flowed across Nebraska and into Kansas. Headward erosion of the […]
Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project 