The Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project is the first known scientific expedition of discovery to systematically study detailed topographic map evidence for all major drainage divide areas within and surrounding the Missouri River drainage basin and in a sense is a modern-day equivalent of historical voyages of discovery where explorers traveled […]
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A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay provides an overview of more detailed essays describing North and South Dakota Grand River drainage basin landform origins. The detailed essays can be found under SD Grand River on this website’s sidebar category list. The Grand River drainage basin is located in southwest North […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay provides an overview of more detailed essays describing Moreau River drainage basin landform origins. The detailed essays can be found under Moreau River on this website’s sidebar category list. The Moreau River drainage basin is located in northwest South Dakota. To the west is […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: The southwest North Dakota Missouri Slope region is located south and west of the Missouri River and east and south of the Little Missouri River in North Dakota and includes the Knife, Heart, Cannonball River drainage basins and their drainage divides with the Little Missouri River. […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: The Little Missouri River originates in northeast Wyoming and flows in a northeast and north direction across the southeast corner of Montana and the northwest corner of South Dakota into southwest North Dakota. In west-central North Dakota the north-oriented Little Missouri River makes a turn to […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: The Bad River drainage basin is located in western South Dakota. The Bad River originates east of the Black Hills near Wall, South Dakota and flows in an east-northeast and northeast direction to join the southeast-oriented Missouri River near Fort Pierre, South Dakota as a barbed […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: The White River originates as a southeast-oriented river in northwest Nebraska and then turns to flow in a northeast direction into western South Dakota before turning to flow in a generally east direction to the southeast-oriented Missouri River. The White River drainage basin includes most of […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay provides an overview of more detailed essays using topographic map evidence to illustrate and describe Belle Fourche River drainage basin landform origins. The detailed essays can be found under Belle Fourche River on this website’s sidebar category list. The Belle Fourche River drainage basin […]
A collection of detailed research data based on topographic map evidence Abstract: The Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project introduces a fundamentally new and different geomorphology paradigm by interpreting previously unexplained topographic map evidence to determine origins for all major Missouri River drainage basin drainage divides. Detailed essays illustrating and describing interpreted topographic […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: The Cheyenne River drainage basin is located in western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming and includes the Black Hills upland region. The Cheyenne River originates in eastern Wyoming and flows in a southeast and northeast direction around the Black Hills south end, while a major Cheyenne […]
This overview essay provides highlights from more detailed essays using topographic map evidence to illustrate and interpret Black Hills landform origins. Detailed essays can be found under Black Hills region on this website’s sidebar category list. The Black Hills are highland region located in western South Dakota and northeast Wyoming and rise 1000 meters or more […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This overview essay provides highlights from more detailed essays which use topographic map evidence to interpret the history of drainage divides within and surrounding the Powder River drainage basin. Detailed essays can be found under Powder River on this website’s sidebar category list. Detailed essays describing […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This Niobrara River drainage basin landform origins overview essay provides highlights from more detailed essays which illustrate and interpret detailed topographic map evidence. The detailed essays can be found under Niobrara River on this website’s sidebar category list. All interpretations in this overview essay and the […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay provides an overview of more detailed essays which use topographic map evidence to describe the history of drainage divides surrounding the Yellowstone River drainage basin and also of drainage divides within the Yellowstone River drainage basin. Detailed essays can be found under Yellowstone River […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay provides an overview of more detailed essays which use topographic map evidence to interpret the history of drainage divides within and surrounding the Tongue River drainage basin. Detailed essays can be found under Tongue River on this website’s sidebar category list. Detailed essays describing […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This overview essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret the history of drainage divides within and surrounding the Bighorn River drainage basin. Detailed essays describing a few Bighorn River drainage divide areas near the Yellowstone River in Montana have been written and can be found under […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This overview essay provides highlights from more detailed essays describing the Redwater River drainage basin, which is located in eastern Montana and is a northeast and north-oriented Missouri River tributary. The detailed essays can be found under Redwater River on this website’s sidebar category list. To […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This overview essays provides highlights from more detailed essays which illustrate and describe topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins within the Montana Musselshell River drainage basin and between the Musselshell River drainage basin and adjacent drainage basins. All interpretations in this essay and the related […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This overview essay provides highlights from more detailed essays which use topographic map evidence to interpret the history of drainage divides within and surrounding the Montana Missouri River drainage basin (upstream from the Yellowstone River confluence near the Montana-North Dakota border). The detailed essays can be […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay provides an overview of more detailed essays illustrating and discussing the northeast Montana Big Dry Creek drainage basin drainage history. The detailed essays can be under Big Dry Creek on this website’s sidebar category list. All interpretations in this essay and in the more […]
Abstract: The Milk River originates in the Glacier National Park region west of Browning, Montana and flows in a northeast direction into Alberta before turning to flow in a southeast direction to Havre, Montana and then in an east and southeast direction to join the east-oriented Missouri River east of Glasgow, Montana. This overview […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay provides an overview of more detailed essay which illustrate and discuss topographic map evidence pertaining to Judith River drainage basin drainage history. The detailed essays can be found under Judith River on this website’s sidebar category list. The Judith River is a north-oriented Missouri […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This overview essay provides highlights from more detailed essays, which interpret topographic map evidence to determine North Dakota Missouri River drainage basin landform origins. The detailed essays can be found under ND Missouri River on this website’s sidebar category list. The Missouri River enters North Dakota […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This overview essay provides highlights from more detailed essays using topographic map evidence to interpret James River drainage basin landform origins. The detailed essays can be found under James River on this website’s sidebar category list. The James River originates on the Missouri Coteau northeast edge […]
A geomorphic history based on topographic map evidence Abstract: This essay provides an overview more detailed essays using topographic map evidence to interpret Big Sioux River drainage basin landform origins. The detailed essays can be found under Big Sioux River on this website’s sidebar category list. All interpretations in this overview essay and in the […]
Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project 