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Geology

1980

Geology--North Dakota--Minot

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Surface Geology For Land Use Planning, Minot, North Dakota Area, Garth S. Anderson Jan 1980

Surface Geology For Land Use Planning, Minot, North Dakota Area, Garth S. Anderson

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The Minot area includes about 330 square kilometres along both sides of the Souris River in north-central North Dakota. The area can be divided into the flat Souris River floodplain, the steeply sloping sides of the Souris and Des Lacs meltwater channels and larger tributaries, and the gently undulating uplands dissected by small streams. Surficial geologic units include Early Tertiary sand, silt, clay, and sandstone of the Bullion Creek Formation, Pleistocene glacial till, ice contact fluvial deposits, and other fluvial deposits of the Coleharbor Group, and Holocene fluvial and eolian deposits of the Oahe Formation.

Expansion of the Minot metropolitan …