A newly published book titled “The Topographic Map Mystery:Geology’s Unrecognized Paradigm Problem” discusses in considerable detail the problems geomorphologists have encountered when trying to explain topographic map drainage system and erosional landform evidence (such as is discussed on this website) and describes a new and fundamentally diffrent Cenozoic geology and glacial history paradigm which is […]
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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 […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Big Sandy Creek-Smoky Hill River drainage divide area in Cheyenne County, Colorado. Big Sandy Creek flows in a southeast direction into Cheyenne County and once in Cheyenne County turns to flow in a south-southeast direction and south of Cheyenne County flows […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Clear Creek-Bear Creek drainage divide area in the Colorado Front Range. Clear Creek is a north and east oriented stream originating in the Colorado Front Range and joining the north, southeast, and northeast oriented South Platte River on the Colorado Piedmont […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Crow Creek-South Platte River drainage divide area in Weld and Morgan Counties, Colorado. Before entering Weld County the South Platte River flows in a north direction east of the Colorado Front Range and once in Weld County the South Platte River […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Lodgepole Creek-South Platte River drainage divide area in Kimball and Cheyenne Counties, Nebraska and Sedgwick and Logan Counties, Colorado. Kimball and Cheyenne Counties are located along the south margin of the Nebraska panhandle and Sedgwick and Logan Counties are located in […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the North Platte River-South Platte River drainage divide area in Deuel, Garden, and Keith Counties, Nebraska. Deuel, Garden, and Keith Counties are located in western Nebraska west of where the northeast oriented South Platte River and the southeast oriented North Platte River meet […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins along the continental divide between the Red Rock River in Beaverhead County, Montana and Medicine Lodge Creek in Clark County, Idaho. The continental divide segment investigated in this essay extends from Bannack Pass in the west to Monida Pass in the east and is […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Beaverhead County, Montana Tendoy Mountains between the north-northwest oriented Red Rock River and north oriented Medicine Lodge Creek. Medicine Lodge Creek flows along the Tendoy Mountains west flank while the Red Rock River flows along the Tendoy Mountains east flank with water […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the southeast Pioneer Mountains region between Grasshopper Creek and Beaverhead River in Beaverhead County, Montana. The Beaverhead River is today a north-northeast oriented drainage route east of the Pioneer Mountains and is joined by the north, northeast, southeast, south, and northeast oriented Big […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins south of the Pioneer Mountains between the Big Hole River and Beaverhead River in Beaverhead County, Montana. The Big Hole River flows in a north direction along the Pioneer Mountains west flank and then makes a U-turn to flow in a southeast and south […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Pioneer Mountains between the north-oriented Wise River and the south-oriented Big Hole River in Beaverhead County, Montana. The Big Hole River flows in a north and northeast direction along the Pioneer Mountains west flank and then makes a U-turn to flow in […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the Pioneer Mountains between the north oriented Big Hole River and Wise River in Beaverhead County, Montana. The Big Hole River flows in a north direction along the Pioneer Mountains west flank and then makes a U-turn to flow in a southeast and […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins along the continental divide between the Big Hole River in Beaverhead County, Montana and the Salmon River in Lemhi County, Idaho. The Big Hole River flows in a north direction in Montana on the east side of the Beaverhead Mountains while on the west […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins along the continental divide between Clark Fork and the Big Hole River in Granite and Deer Lodge Counties, Montana. The east-west continental divide crosses the study region in roughly a southwest to northeast direction along the Anaconda Range crest with drainage north of the […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Mill Creek and the Big Hole River along the east–west continental divide in Silver Bow and Deer Lodge Counties, Montana. The east-west continental divide crosses the study region in roughly a west to east direction with north oriented drainage north […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between the Little Blackfoot River and the Boulder River along the east –west continental divide in Powell and Jefferson Counties Montana. The continental divide in the study region serves as the Powell-Jefferson County border with Powell County being west of the […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Bison Creek and the Boulder River in Jefferson County Montana. The Boulder River, which after flowing in a north direction, turns to flow in an east, southeast, and south-southwest direction to join the east oriented Jefferson River, which flows to […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Clark Fork and the Boulder River along the east-west continental divide north of Butte, Montana. The east-west continental divide is located just east of Butte and makes a jog to the west north of Butte before jogging back to the […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between the Boulder River and the Missouri River in Jefferson and Broadwater Counties, Montana. The Missouri River flows in a north-northwest direction in the study area while the Boulder River flows in a south-southeast and southwest direction. The south oriented Boulder […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Prickly Pear Creek and the Missouri River in Jefferson and Broadwater Counties, Montana. The Missouri River flows in a north-northwest direction in the study area while Prickly Pear Creek is a west-northwest and north-northeast oriented Missouri River tributary west of […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Little Blackfoot River and the Missouri River along the east-west continental divide in Lewis and Clark and Powell Counties, Montana. East of the continental divide the Missouri River flows in a north-northwest direction in eastern Lewis and Clark County before […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between Rotten Grass Creek and the Little Bighorn River in Big Horn County, Montana. Rotten Grass Creek is a northeast, north, and north-northwest oriented Bighorn River tributary originating in the high Bighorn Mountains near the Montana-Wyoming state line. The Little Bighorn […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between the Bighorn River and Rotten Grass Creek in Big Horn County, Montana. North of the Wyoming state line the Bighorn River flows in a deep northeast oriented canyon across the north end of the Bighorn Mountains and then flows in […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret landform origins in the region between the Clarks Fork Yellowstone River and the Bighorn River and its Shoshone River tributary near the Montana-Wyoming border. Clarks Fork of the Yellowstone River originates in the Montana Beartooth Mountains and flows in a southeast direction into Wyoming before turning […]
Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project 