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The Surficial Geology Of North-Central Kidder County, North Dakota, Wallace E. Bakken

Theses and Dissertations

Kidder County is situated in central North Dakota within the glaciated Missouri Plateau. Rocks underlying the drift range from Cretaceous (Pierre formation) through Palocene (Tongue River formation) in age. The Pierre and Fox Hills formations constitute the majority of the pre-Pleistocene surface. Ice-shove deformation, apparently during Cary time, tilted blocks of Fox Hills in the Sibley Buttes into northeastward-dipping positions.

Cary and Mankato subages of Wisconsin age are represented at the surface. Ages are difficult to assign to drift sheets on the basis of lithology or degree of weathering of included tills; but by correlation from South Dakota and crosscutting …

An Investigation Of The Bakken And Englewood Formations (Kinderhookian) Of North Dakota And Northwestern South Dakota, Jack Kume

Theses and Dissertations

Lower Mississippian rocks of the Williston Basin and Black Hills include the Bakken and Englewood formations of Kinderhockian age. The Englewood formation crops out in the northern Black Hills and can be traced with difficulty into the subsurface. The Bakken formation does not crop out in the area out in the area of this study. This study is based upon well sample and mechanical log information and measured surface sections.

The Englewood in the outcrops consists of a lower shale unit, a middle argillaceous and shaly limestone unit, and an upper delominte limestone unit. A type section, NW, SE; see. …

Pleistocene Geology Of Northern Kidder County, North Dakota, James Chmelik

Theses and Dissertations

The topography of northern Kidder County is due almost entirely to glacial deposition. This are is covered with glacial drift up to a thickness of at least 269 feet which was deposited during Wisconsin ice advances. Seventy-five percent of the area has stagnation moraine which typically exhibits knob-and-kettle topography, has high local relief with no linear trends, and which was deposited after the ice became stagnant. Many kames and eskers were formed contemporaneously with stagnation moraine. The names, Lake Williams and Woodhouse Lake loops, and proposed for and moraines deposited by Cary and Mankato ice advances, respectively. The Lake Williams …

Glacial Geology Of South-Central Kidder County, North Dakota, Barrett J. Williams

Theses and Dissertations

South-central Kidder County is covered with deposits of drift brought by ice sheets which invaded the areas from the northeast and east. Bedrock of Cretaceous age underlies the drift mantle. The drift on the surface in Kidder County represents the Cary and Mankato substages of the Wisconsin Stage of Pleistocene series.

Three types of moraines, ground, stagnation, and end moraine, are present in the area. Five late Wisconsin and moraines are distinguished and named in this portion of Kidder County. These are, from west to east and oldest to youngest, the Long Lake loop and Sibley Buttes loop of Cary …

Stratigraphy Of The Winnipeg And Deadwood Formations In North Dakota, Clarence G. Carlson

Theses and Dissertations

The Deadwood formation includes all of the pre-Winnipeg sedimentary rocks of North Dakota which range in thickness from an erosional edge in the subsurface of northeastern North Dakota to at least 1,000 feet in northwestern North Dakota. It is composed of sandstone, shale, and carbonate of Late Cambrian to Early Crdovician age. Facies relationships are not entirely clear, but sedimentation appears to have been continuous from Late Cambrian to Early Crdovician in the Williston Basin. Conodonts from the upper part of the Deadwood formation in northwestern North Dakota are brownish-black, mostly simple cone types and suggest an Early Drdovician age …