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Stream Piracy And Glacial Diversion Of Little Missouri River, North Dakota, Emmett R. Schmitz
Stream Piracy And Glacial Diversion Of Little Missouri River, North Dakota, Emmett R. Schmitz
Theses and Dissertations
Bedrock river terraces, as much as 275 to 500 feet above the present Little Missouri, are remnants of a former floodplain. The presence of these former shallow valley floor (Little Missouri Terrace No. 4) along the pre-glacial channel and east and north of the Killdeer Mountains suggests several pre-glacial rivers.
Peripheral precipitation in advance of the Kansan-Illinoian glacier, head-ward erosion with consequent new gradient breached the divide between the pre-glacial Little Missouri River and the “Medicine Stone” River, (herein named, after a local landmark), which flowed eastward into pre-glacial Missouri River.
The history of that portion of the Little Missouri …