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The Geologic Story of the Great Plains / A nontechnical description of the origin and evolution of the landscape of the Great Plains

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A nontechnical account explains the geological origin and evolution of the Great Plains, defining its extent and subdividing it into regional sections. It traces deep-time events—marine deposition, uplift and warping, westward progradation of sediments, and Pleistocene glaciation—and shows how streams, weathering, loess and wind, and erosion sculpted plateaus, badlands, dunes, sand hills, escarpments, and isolated uplifts such as the Black Hills and Central Texas dome. Illustrated regional descriptions emphasize surface forms, rock units, and drainage history, and the text synthesizes these elements to explain the present variety of plains landscapes.

R
Racetrack, The 22
Rainfall 2
Rapid City, S. Dak. 20
Raton Basin 24
Raton Formation 16
Raton Mesa 20, 23
Raton section 10, 20, 23, 45
Red Hills 48, 49
Red Valley 22
Republican River 4, 29, 48
Rhinoceroses 16, 18
Rio Grande 7, 45
Rocky Mountains 5, 19
Roswell, N. Mex. 45
S
Sabinal River 46
Salina, Kans. 4
Saline River 4, 48
San Antonio, Tex. 47
Sand dunes 44, 49
Sand Hills, Nebr. 29
Sangre de Cristo Mountains 7, 45, 46
Scotts Bluff National Monument 27, 42
Sedimentation 10, 11, 32
Shonkin Sag 35
Sinkholes 47, 48
Skyline Drive, Canon City, Colo. 43
Smith River 38
Smoky Hill River 4, 48
Smoky Hills 48, 49
Soil development 16
Solomon River 4, 48
Solution cavities 45, 47, 48
Sonora, Tex. 47
South Dakota 20, 29, 33, 34
South Dakota Badlands 16
South Platte River 4, 7, 42, 43, 44
Spanish Peaks 19, 24
Spruce trees 2
Stream deposition 11, 32
Summary 49
Sun River 38
Superior Upland 5, 10
Sweetgrass Hills 33
Sylvan Lake 20
T
Tapirs 16
Tertiary Period 42, 43, 45, 46, 48
Teton River 33
Texas 7
Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park 35, 40
Till 34
Titanotheres 16
Tongue River 39
Trails 2
Trees 1, 2, 7
Triassic Period 21
Triceratops 16
Trinidad, Colo. 25
U
Uplift 11, 16, 19, 32, 37
V
Valley development 39
Vaughn, N. Mex. 45
Vegetation 1, 2, 7, 10, 16
Vermejo Formation 16
Volcanoes 16, 20, 40
W
Walsenburg, Colo. 24
Warping 11
Well-drilling 11
West Nueces River 46
White River 29, 39, 40
White River Group 16, 40, 44
Williston basin 11, 16, 33
Wind Cave 21
Wind deposition 44
Wyoming 20, 39
Y
Yellowstone River 33, 38

Transcriber’s Notes

  • Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
  • In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.