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 […]
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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 […]
Abstract: The Kansas River-Dragoon Creek drainage divide area in Wabaunsee, Shawnee, and Osage Counties was eroded by immense south and southeast oriented floods from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet, which flowed into and across Kansas. Southeast-oriented Dragoon Creek flows to southeast-oriented Hundred and Ten Mile Creek, which flows to southeast-oriented Marais des Cygnes […]
Abstract: The Dragoon Creek-Neosho River drainage divide area in Osage, Lyon, and Coffey Counties, Kansas is actually multiple drainage divides between southeast-oriented Dragoon Creek and east-oriented Salt Creek, between Salt Creek and the east-northeast oriented Marais des Cygnes River, and between the Marais des Cygnes River and the southeast-oriented Neosho River. Dragoon Creek and Salt […]
Abstract: The Kansas River-Pottawatomie Creek drainage divide area in Douglas, Franklin, and Anderson Counties, Kansas is actually three major west to east oriented drainage divides. The northern drainage divide is between the east-oriented Kansas River and east-oriented Wakarusa River, which is a Kansas River tributary. South of the Kansas River-Wakarusa River drainage divide is the […]
Abstract: The Pottawatomie Creek-Neosho River drainage divide area in Coffey, Anderson, and Allen Counties, Kansas is the divide between the Missouri River drainage basin to the north and east and the Arkansas River drainage basin to the south and west. The Coffey, Anderson, and Allen Counties area was eroded by massive south and southeast oriented […]
Abstract: The Kansas River-Marais des Cygnes River drainage divide area in Johnson and Miami Counties is the divide between the Kansas River drainage basin to the north and the Osage River drainage basin to the south. The drainage divide area was eroded by immense south oriented floods derived from a rapidly melting North American ice […]
Abstract: The Marais des Cygnes River-Little Osage River drainage divide area in Miami, Linn, and Bourbon Counties, Kansas was eroded by immense south-oriented floods. Flood waters were derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet and flowed into and across eastern Kansas, where systematic headward erosion of deep east-oriented valleys captured the flood flow […]
Abstract: The Little Osage River-Neosho River drainage divide area in Bourbon and Crawford Counties, Kansas is the divide between the Missouri River drainage basin to the north and the Arkansas River drainage basin to the south and was eroded by immense south-oriented floods. Floods were derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet and […]
Abstract: The Little Osage River-Spring River drainage divide area in Vernon, Barton, and Jasper Counties, Missouri is also the divide between the Missouri River drainage basin to the north and the Arkansas River drainage basin to the south. The Vernon, Barton, and Jasper Counties area was crossed by immense south-oriented floods derived from a rapidly […]
Abstract: The South Grand River-Little Osage River drainage divide area in Cass, Bates, and Vernon Counties, Missouri is located just east of the north-south oriented Kansas-Missouri state line and was eroded by immense south-oriented floods. Flood waters were derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet and were captured by headward erosion of deep […]
Abstract: The Missouri River-Osage River drainage divide area in Jackson and Cass Counties, Missouri is in reality the Missouri River-South Grand River drainage divide area with the South Grand River being a southeast-oriented Osage River tributary. The Missouri River-South Grand River drainage divide area was eroded by immense south oriented floods from a rapidly melting North […]
Abstract: The Blackwater River-South Grand River drainage divide area in Johnson and Henry Counties, Missouri is actually the Blackwater River-Osage River drainage divide area and was eroded by immense south oriented floods derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet. Flood waters in Henry County were captured by headward erosion of the deep Osage River-South […]
Abstract: The South Grand River-Osage River drainage divide area in Henry, St Clair, and Benton Counties is located upstream from Harry S. Truman Dam and Harry S. Truman Reservoir floods the South Grand River and Osage River valleys. The Osage River and South Grand River valleys and tributary valleys were eroded during immense south-oriented floods […]
Abstract: The Clear Creek-Sac River drainage divide area in St Clair, Vernon, and Cedar Counties, Missouri is located south of the east-oriented Osage River and was eroded by immense south-oriented floods prior to Osage River valley headward erosion. Flood waters were derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet and prior to Osage River […]
Abstract: The Sac River-Spring River drainage divide area in Barton, Dade, and Lawrence Counties, Missouri is the drainage divide between the Missouri River drainage basin to the north and the Arkansas River drainage basin to the south. Immediately south of the Spring River headwaters area is the southeast oriented White River drainage basin, which east of […]
Abstract: The Little Sac River-James River drainage divide area in Dade, Polk, and Greene Counties, Missouri is the divide between the Missouri River drainage basin to the north and the White River drainage basin to the south. The drainage divide area was eroded by immense south-oriented flood flow from a rapidly melting North American ice […]
Abstract: The Weaubleau Creek-Little Sac River drainage divide area in St Clair, Hickory, Cedar, and Polk Counties, Missouri is located south of the Osage River and east of the Sac River and is drained primarily by north and northwest oriented streams. The north and northwest oriented stream valleys were eroded during a massive reversal of […]
Abstract: The Osage River-Weaubleau Creek drainage divide in St Clair, Benton, and Hickory Counties is bounded on the east by the north-oriented Pomme de Terre River, on the west by north, northwest, and north oriented Weaubleau Creek, and on the north by the east-oriented Osage River, and is drained primarily by north-oriented streams. North-oriented valleys […]
Abstract: The Little Sac River-Pomme de Terre River drainage divide area in Polk, Dallas, Greene, and Webster Counties, Missouri is the drainage divide between two north-oriented Osage River tributaries and evolved during a massive reversal of an immense south-oriented flood. South-oriented flood waters were derived from a rapidly melting North American ice sheet and flowed […]
Abstract: The Osage River-Little Niangua River drainage divide area in Benton, Camden, Hickory, and Dallas Counties, Missouri is bounded by the Osage River in the north, the Pomme de Terre River in the west, and the north and east oriented Little Niangua River, which flows into the north-oriented Niangua River, in the east and south. […]
Abstract: The Pomme de Terre River-Niangua River drainage divide area in Polk, Dallas, and Webster Counties, Missouri is the southern half of the drainage divide between two north-oriented Osage River tributaries and was eroded and created during a massive reversal of an immense south oriented flood. The south oriented flood waters were derived from a rapidly melting […]
Abstract: The Osage River-Dry Auglaize Creek drainage divide area in Camden, Miller, and Laclede Counties, Missouri is bounded on the north by the east oriented Osage River, on the west by the north oriented Niangua River, and on the east and south by north and east-northeast oriented Dry Auglaize Creek, and was eroded by a massive reversal […]
Abstract: The Niangua River-Osage Fork (Gasconade River) drainage divide area in Dallas, Laclede, and Webster Counties, Missouri is the drainage divide between a north-oriented Osage River tributary to the west and a northwest and northeast oriented Gasconade River tributary to the east and was eroded by immense south-oriented floods which were beheaded and reversed by […]
Abstract: The Osage River-Gasconade River drainage divide area in Osage, Miller, Maries, and Pulaski Counties, Missouri was eroded by immense south oriented floods which were captured and diverted to flow in southeast, east, and northeast directions by headward erosion of deep north-oriented Missouri River and Osage River tributary valleys. Headward erosion of the deep east-oriented Missouri […]
Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project 