The succession of Pleistocene Formations in the Mississippi and Nelson River Basins

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Research Article| January 01, 1893 The succession of Pleistocene Formations in the Mississippi and Nelson River Basins Warren Upham Warren Upham Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar GSA Bulletin (1893) 5 (1): 87–100. https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-5-87 Article history first online: 02 Mar 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Search Site Citation Warren Upham; The succession of Pleistocene Formations in the Mississippi and Nelson River Basins. GSA Bulletin 1893;; 5 (1): 87–100. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/GSAB-5-87 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentBy SocietyGSA Bulletin Search Advanced Search Abstract Introduction.During fourteen years, since June 9, 1879, my field observations and constant studies, successively for the geological surveys of Minnesota and of the United States, have been directed chiefly to the glacial and modified drift of Minnesota, northern, central and northwestern Iowa, the eastern borders of South Dakota, nearly all of North Dakota, excepting the country southwest of the Missouri river, and the large prairie portion of Manitoba. These areas comprise the upper part of the Mississippi basin, the whole district drained by the Red river of the North above the city of Winnipeg, and the lower part of the basin of its large western tributary, the Assiniboine, the two last named streams being portions of the Nelson river system, sending their waters through lake Winnipeg and the Nelson to Hudson bay.In mapping the marginal moraines of the Minnesota and Iowa lobe of the ice-sheet, the first and . . . This content is PDF only. Please click on the PDF icon to access. First Page Preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this article.