Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determine landform origins in the Teton River-Sun River drainage divide area located in western Teton County. Western Teton County is a region of high mountains just east of the east-west continental divide while eastern Teton County is a plains region east of the mountain front. The Teton […]
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Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determine landform origins in the Sun River-Missouri River drainage divide area of Cascade County, Montana. The Missouri River flows in a northeast direction through Cascade County passing the communities of Cascade and Great Falls and is joined by north-northwest oriented tributaries from the south. The Sun River […]
Abstract: This is essay is an introduction to a collection of essays describing drainage divide areas in and surrounding the Montana Dearborn River drainage basin. This essay contains an overview of more detailed information contained in the five much more detailed essays, which can be found under the Dearborn River category (see sidebar). The Dearborn River […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determine Sun River-Dearborn River drainage divide area landform origins in eastern Lewis and Clark County, Montana. The Sun River originates along the east-west continental divide, which forms the Lewis and Clark County west border, and flows in an east direction to join the northeast-oriented Missouri River at […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation techniques are used to determine landform origins in the Sun River-Dearborn River drainage divide area located in western Lewis and Clark County, Montana. The Sun River originates in the Lewis and Clark Range along the east-west continental divide and flows in an east direction to join the northeast-oriented Missouri River. The […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map interpretation methods to determine landform origins in the South Fork Dearborn River-Missouri River drainage divide area located in Lewis and Clark County, Montana. No effort has been made to introduce evidence from other sources. The Missouri River flows in a north-northwest and north-northeast direction along the study region’s east […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret Dearborn River-South Fork Dearborn River drainage divide area landform origins in Lewis and Clark County, Montana. The Dearborn River originates in the high Lewis and Clark Mountain Range along the east-west continental divide and flows in a southeast direction with some northeast-oriented segments to join a […]
Abstract: The “thick ice sheet that melted fast” geomorphology paradigm is being introduced in the Missouri River drainage basin research project essays by interpreting large quantities of previously neglected topographic map drainage divide evidence. Fundamental differences between the “thick ice sheet that melted fast” geomorphology paradigm and the prevailing geomorphology paradigm are related to number […]
Abstract: This essay uses topographic map evidence to interpret the east-west continental divide origin along the Montana Dearborn River-Blackfoot River drainage divide. The Dearborn River-Blackfoot River drainage divide is oriented in what might be considered a southeast direction along the crests of high mountain ridges at the south end of the Lewis and Clark Mountain […]
The Missouri River drainage basin research project is using topographic map interpretation methods to determine landform origins along approximately 500 different drainage divides within and surrounding the Missouri River drainage basin. A separate essay is made for each drainage divide area, which usually includes two location maps and eight examples of topographic maps along with […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determine erosional landform origins in the Shields River drainage divide area located in Gallatin and Park Counties, Montana. The Shields River is a south-southeast oriented tributary to the east and northeast oriented Yellowstone River and flows in a broad valley east of the Bridger Range and west […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determine landform origins in the Sixteenmile Creek-Gallatin River drainage divide area located in Gallatin County, Montana. Sixteenmile Creek is a southwest, northwest, and west oriented stream flowing between the Big Belt Mountains to the north and the Bridger Range to the south and flows to the north-oriented […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods area used in this essay to determine landform origins in the Deep Creek-Sixteenmile Creek drainage divide area at the south end of the Montana Big Belt Mountains. Deep Creek and Sixteenmile Creek both originate east of the Big Belt Mountains and flow in west directions across the Big Belt Mountains […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation techniques are used to determine landform origins in the Sixteenmile Creek-Shields River drainage divide area located in central Montana. The Shields River is a southwest and south-southeast oriented Yellowstone River tributary and drains the northern Crazy Mountains and the south end of a broad north-south oriented through valley with the Shields […]
This essay is an overview of a essays describing landform origins for drainage divides between Montana’s Smith River tributaries and between the Smith River drainage basin and adjacent drainage basins. The Smith River is a north-northwest oriented Missouri River tributary located in central Montana. The north-northwest oriented Smith River (and South Fork Smith River) valley […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determine landform origins in the Smith River-Missouri River drainage divide area in Meagher and Broadwater Counties, Montana, which is also located in the Big Belt Mountains. The Missouri River flows in a north-northwest direction along the Big Belt Mountains west side and then turns to flow in […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determine landform origins in the Montana Missouri River-Smith River drainage divide area north of the Big Belt Mountains. The Missouri River flows in a north-northwest and northeast direction west and north of the Big Belt Mountains while the Smith River flows in a north and north-northwest direction […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determine landform origins in the Montana Smith River-Belt Creek drainage divide area north of the Little Belt Mountains. Today the Smith River and Belt Creek are north-oriented tributaries to the northeast-oriented Missouri River in eastern Cascade County, Montana with Belt Creek located east of the Smith River. […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determine landform origins in the Missouri River-Hound Creek drainage divide area in Lewis and Clark and Cascade Counties, Montana. The study region is today a region of high mountains and deep valleys located between the north-northwest and north-northeast oriented Missouri River and east and north-oriented Hound Creek. […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to determine landform origins in the Hound Creek-Smith River drainage divide area located in Cascade and Meagher Counties, Montana. The Smith River is a north and north-northwest oriented tributary to the northeast-oriented Missouri River in central Montana and is located east of the Big Belt Mountains. The north-northwest […]
Abstract: Topographic map interpretation methods are used to interpret South Fork Smith River-Missouri River drainage divide area landform origins in the Big Belt Mountains area of Meagher and Broadwater Counties, Montana. West of the Big Belt Mountains the Missouri River flows in a north-northwest direction and then in a northeast direction north of the mountains. […]
Missouri River drainage basin landform origins research project 