Abstract: The Platte River-Medicine Creek drainage divide area in Lincoln and Frontier Counties, Nebraska contains evidence of massive south-oriented flood flow that occurred prior to Platte River valley headward erosion. 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 […]
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Abstract: The South Platte River-Frenchman Creek drainage divide area in Keith, Perkins, and Chase Counties, Nebraska was eroded by massive south and/or southeast oriented flood flow, which originally flowed across Nebraska and into Kansas. Headward erosion of present day valleys captured the south-oriented flood flow in an identifiable sequence and diverted flood waters to what […]
Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project 