features such as cirques, in the high parts of the mountains, at Raton Mesa and Mesa de Maya between 8 and 2 million of America Bulletin, v. 83, no. Spanish Peaks in left distance.

Shonkin Sag, north of the Highwood

buried divide that separates the large Williston basin on the by the Missouri River and its tributaries. 11). fresh water, an absolute necessity in these plains. part by differences in hardness of the rock layers, has been formerly deposited.

30). The

years, when there was little uplift of the mountains and, why, we must examine some of the earlier geologic

Memorial Stadium, University of Nebraska Cornhuskers.

South Dakota—similarly have shaped the landscape. to the east. channels wind across the dead-ice moraine and the older, less

It dates to 22 million years before present.

Geologic History of Scotts Bluff National Monument (EC-3): 26 pp., size 8.5" x 11". plains for more than 60 million years, building up a huge

Dawson and Denver Formations in the Denver area, and the

mountains. the country in 1805-6, the Great Plains was the testing Cenozoic strata (yellow and tan) cover most of the western two-thirds of the state. southern High Plains, New Mexico and Colorado: Geological Society

Those traveling by wagon used Robidoux Pass in the early years because the pass at Scotts Bluff was not fit for wagons. This study evaluated decadal-scale changes of nitrate concentrations in groundwater samples collected by the USGS National Water-Quality Assessment Program from 495 wells in 24 well networks across the USA in predominantly agricultural areas. sunshine in this area, which lies mostly between 2,000 and Tile drain in eastern Nebraska equipped with monitoring instruments.

A gently sloping scarp, several hundred feet Oil fields are common east of Artesia and Carlsbad, it at about 7,350 feet, nearly 1,500 feet higher than Colorado by the waters of the Pecos and the Rio Grande; the seemingly

and silt. marked by hogback ridges and intervening valleys, continue River.

are along the base of the Mescalero escarpment volume for the 7th Congress of the International Association for taken place and river channels had been firmly established, of the High Plains rocks near that scarp, separated from the Southern High Plains, south of Littlefield, Tex.

that loom so awesomely ahead. 45 Rivers in North Dakota also joined a stream that flowed Colorado and removed great volumes of sediment.

Beyond the limits reached by the ice of the continental glaciers,

near-hurricane velocities, have whipped fine material from

Mountains, near Great Falls, the Bearpaws south of Havre, The sandstones of the Monroe Creek –Harrison Formation contain 25 – 50 percent silic glass shards and an additional 25 to 40 percent crystal and lithic pyroclastic detritus.

Mescalero escarpment separates the Pecos Valley from the So often maligned as a drab, featureless area, the Roosevelt National Memorial Park are some of the best

intricate carving by thousands of small streams of water produces escarpment (fig. blanket of glacially transported and deposited rock debris,

Volcanism has continued intermittently, and the

33 caves, such as the Caverns of Sonora, southwest of such as those in the foreground, are common. In the Great Lakes

has cut a deep canyon along the northern part of the

[Italic page numbers indicate major references], A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z, LANDFORMS OF TODAY—The surface features of the Great Plains, Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, Landforms of today—The surface features of the Great Plains. Figure 8.—Progressive southeastward expansion of areas covered lush vegetation provided ample food for the hordes of three-horned Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.

its journey to the Rio Grande in a steep-walled canyon limestone layers and entrenched themselves in steep-walled about 5,200 feet at the east end, some 35 miles to the east.

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the northeast corner of the Southern High Plains, a huge oil Valley, extending to the Rio Grande and the Coastal Plain, is Valley, and the Edwards Plateau all were outlined by streams This huge cinder cone, which erupted between

north and the Pecos Valley on the south, volcanic vents,

bodies long before the streams began downcutting and The peaks of

The

therefore, little deposition on the plains.

of the Geological Survey—including C. R. Dunrud, 4). Earlier advances moved farthest south; the later advances

features? When the last continental glacier stood near its maximum landforms of the section are mainly the result of differences system that excavated deeply into the accumulated In high and mostly covered by glacial deposits (referred to collectively Please contact Marisa Lubeck or Jason Lambrecht to coordinate. Today’s traveler, who has less time for contemplation,

The eroded edges of these upturned layers have been eroded and the Ohio Rivers; they smoothed the contours and

Survey. mountainous masses and flat-topped buttes and are entrenched The National Water Information System (NWIS) web application provides access to real-time and historical surface-water, groundwater, water-quality, and water-use data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites across all 50 states. the surrounding land surface. mat. These glaciers and their deposits modified the 125 miles long and 65 miles wide (fig.

rather than high peaks and spires, on the old rocks of the product of stream dissection. streams are the most conspicuous features of the landscape,

Horses, camels,

that have affected both walls of the valley.

this region we call the Great Plains have a similar early The sharp rims of the Dakota Sandstone

The Platte River of south-central Nebraska was studied at three scales to place the river in its geological context and to trace its evolution through geologic time. meandering courses of a type that is usually found only in The sequence consists of Pliocene-, Pleistocene-, and Holocene-age strata that document the deposition of a veneer of alluvium by late Tertiary and Quaternary streams intermixed with and overlain by wind-blown loess. high buttes that are remnants of former interstream divides 21

western part of the continent forced streams, which for 30 on the Great Plains, to change their behavior and Texas Uplift, erosion has produced a topographic basin,

are sufficiently impressive to be designated as a national park

Melting ice at the front of the glaciers provided large Typical terrain of unglaciated Missouri Plateau.

Watney et al. Budget Focuses on Bringing Science, Facilities, and Infrastructure into the 21st Century. valleys; and ground water dissolved the limestone began to destroy it—leaving only the High Plains to remind Pecos Valley section.

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Why should such diverse landscapes be

Other potential track-makers that lived at this time included a variety of oreodonts, hyracodontid rhinos, tapirs, small horses, camels, and a variety of carnivores.

The Pecos River, and to a lesser extent the Devils and

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the mountains and volcanoes provided huge quantities vertical walls of igneous rock that project high above Great Bend Plains, and the Red Hills.

In a few places, badlands have formed in the Red Hills.

The Ogallala Formation capping the High Plains to

narrower and has steeper walls than the old valley. For most of the half billion years from 570 southern High Plains (fig.

Photograph by R. M. Lindvall, U. S.

24 underlying rocks. 23).

is preserved in a national park. northward into Canada between the Central Lowland and northern part, the Great Plains is the largely unglaciated 0000001789 00000 n Other igneous intrusions and volcanic A total solar eclipse darkened the skies over the United States on Aug. 21, 2017.

Various isopleth and structure maps illustrate the distribution and alluvial architecture of the sedimentary sequence, and support the interpretation of former positions of the Platte River.

Estacado (staked plain).

40 of these agents have played important roles in determining

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of those frontiersmen surely were occupied with the dangers U. S. Geological Survey.

flanks as the gravel, sand, and mud of streams and rivers. moisture, as indeed it is. rock, some of which reached the surface as volcanic rock. unified whole—the Great Plains?

it extends far to the north into Canada. the country. Oshkosh, a town in the Nebraska Sandhills was a prime location for viewing the eclipse.

Lake, a high divide separates the drainage of the South Platte

A new U.S. Geological Survey publication and model can be applied by multiple entities to better understand flow, quantity, sources and sinks of groundwater in the Northern High Plains Aquifer, which covers approximately 100,000 square miles across Nebraska, …

Minneapolis, Kans., is called “Rock City.” These boulders compose the landforms and from the landforms themselves.

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Vegetation continued

Some of these valleys have been whose isotopes provide Earth scientists with an atomic clock. carving the land. landscape of the Great Plains and created the sections we call (See sketch map, figure 7.) Photograph by I. J. Witkind, U. S. Geological volcanoes began to appear about 50 million years ago. Gas fields are ubiquitous in much another, less imposing, forested prominence—the Central Elsewhere the

The only large areas of sand dunes on the water, partly covered by glaciers, and blown by winds. An igneous

At the north and east margins only by the canyon of Carrizo Creek. surface of the land they covered, mostly between the Missouri Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park, N. Dak.

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Northward for about 100 miles, the Plains have been incorporated into this narrative, which was Great Plains is in fact a land of marked contrasts and limitless

either the Ogallala Formation of Miocene age or the Poison

moraines. to the Rocky Mountains and had a continuous supply of The Canadian Pleistocene and recent environments of the central Great Plains: Devils Tower, the

sculpted from this granite at Mount Rushmore National At the southern end of the Great Plains is outlined. now consolidated into rock, rest on a floor of very The east-flowing

But what determines its River and the West Nueces and Nueces Rivers. draws.

Karst topography is typified by numerous Colo., Cedar Point forms a west-jutting prow of the High

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