The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin. Wallace Walter Atwood

The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin - Wallace Walter Atwood


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The Beginning of a Valley 37 The Course of a Valley 39 Tributary Valleys 39 How a Valley gets a Stream 40 Limits of a Valley 43 A Cycle of Erosion 44 Effects of unequal Hardness 47 Falls and Rapids 48 Narrows 49 Erosion of folded Strata 50 Base-level Plains and Peneplains 50 Transportation and Deposition 55 Topographic Forms resulting from Stream Deposition 56 Rejuvenation of Streams 56 Underground Water 58 CHAPTER IV. EROSION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRIKING SCENIC FEATURES Establishment of Drainage 61 Striking scenic Features 64 The Baraboo Bluffs 65 The Narrows in the Quartzite 66 Glens 68 Natural Bridge 69 The Dalles of the Wisconsin 69 The Mounds and Castle Rocks 71 CHAPTER V. THE GLACIAL PERIOD. The Drift 73 Snow Fields and ice Sheets 74 The North American ice Sheets 78 The Work of glacier Ice 79 Erosive Work of Ice. Effect on Topography 79 Deposition by the Ice. Effect on Topography 85 Direction of ice Movement 88 Effect of Topography on Movement 89 Glacial Deposits 94 The ground Moraine 97 Constitution 99 Topography 101 Terminal Moraines 102 Topography of terminal Moraines 103 The terminal Moraine about Devil's Lake 105 The Moraine on the main Quartzite Range 107 Constitution of the marginal Ridge 110 The Slope of the upper Surface of the Ice at the Margin 111 Stratified Drift 111 Its Origin 112 Glacial Drainage 113 Stages in the History of an Ice Sheet 114 Deposits made by extraglacial Waters during the maximum Extension of the Ice 115 At the Edge of the Ice, on Land 115 Beyond the Edge of the Ice, on Land 116 Deposits at and beyond the Edge of the Ice in standing Water 120 Deposits made by extraglacial Waters during the Retreat of the Ice 121 Deposits made by extraglacial Waters during the Advance of the Ice 123 Deposits made by subglacial Streams 124 Relations of stratified to unstratified Drift 125 Complexity of Relations 126
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