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Groundwater Of The Spiritwood Lake Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota, Frank J. Schulte
Groundwater Of The Spiritwood Lake Area, Stutsman County, North Dakota, Frank J. Schulte
Theses and Dissertations
The Spiritwood Lake study area is in a generally undulating to rolling glacial plain 17 miles north and east of Jamestown, North Dakota. Spiritwood Lake is about 50 feet below the surface of the bedrock plain in a former melt-water channel. In the study area, glacial drift unconformably overlies the Pierre Shale, the youngest pre-Pleistocene sediment. The boundary between the two units is marked by a zone of shattered Pierre Shale. The top of this shattered zone forms a plain of moderate relief which probably was the preglacial surface of the study area.
Two large valleys can be distinguished in …