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Recent Fluvial Geology In Western North Dakota, Thomas M. Hamilton
Recent Fluvial Geology In Western North Dakota, Thomas M. Hamilton
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The thesis here abstracted was written under the direction of Lee Clayton and approved by Walter L. Moore -and John R. Reid as members of the examining connnittee, of which Mr. Clayton was chairman.
In western North Dakota many drainage channels that are incised into valley fill are characterized by steep, unvegetated sides. Many such channels contain actively eroding scarps. The origin of these scarps is most frequently related to increased water velocity causing accelerated erosion on a steepened reach of the valley flat.
The principal mechanism of scarp migration is soilfall which is initiated by undercutting of the scarp …