The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin: With Some Notes on Its Surface GeologySalisbury, Rollin D.
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The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin: With Some Notes on Its Surface Geology
Salisbury, Rollin D.
Physical geography; Wisconsin -- Description and travel
Classification of stratified Drift on the Basis of Position
Extraglacial Deposits
Supermorainic deposits
The submorainic (basal) Deposits
Intermorainic stratified Drift
Changes in Drainage effected by the Ice
While the Ice was on
Wisconsin Lake
Baraboo Lake
Devil's Lake in glacial Times
After the Ice had disappeared
Lakes
Existing Lakes
Changes in Streams
Skillett Creek
The Wisconsin
The Driftless Area
Contrast between glaciated and unglaciated Areas
Topography
Drainage
Mantle Rock
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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PLATES.
Plate
Frontispiece. The Dalles of the Wisconsin
I. General map of the Devil's Lake region
II. Local map of the Devil's Lake region
III. Fig. 1--Ripple marks on a slab of sandstone
Fig. 2--Piece of Potsdam conglomerate
IV. Lower Narrows of the Baraboo
V. Devil's Lake notch
VI. East bluff of Devil's Lake
VII. East bluff at the Upper Narrows of the Baraboo near Ableman's
VIII. Vertical shear zone face of east bluff at Devil's Lake
IX. Massive quartzite in situ in road through Upper Narrows near
Ableman's
X. Brecciated quartzite
XI. Northwest wall of the Upper Narrows
XII. Steamboat Rock
XIII. Fig. 1--A very young valley
Fig. 2--A valley at later stage of development
Fig. 3--Young valleys
XIV. Fig. 1--Same valleys as shown in Pl. XIII, Fig. 3,
but at a later stage of development
Fig. 2--Same valleys as shown in Fig. 1 in later stage of
development
XV. Diagram illustrating how a hard inclined layer of rock
becomes a ridge in the process of degradation
XVI. Skillett Falls
XVII. A group of mounds on the plain northwest from Camp Douglas
XVIII. Castle Rock near Camp Douglas
XIX. Fig. 1--Sketch of a young valley
Fig. 2--Same valleys as shown in Fig. 1 in later stage of
development
XX. Fig. 1--Sketch of a part of a valley at a stage of
development corresponding to the cross section
shown in Figure 21
Fig. 2--Sketch of a section of the Baraboo valley
XXI. Cleopatra's Needle
XXII. Turk's Head
XXIII. Devil's Doorway
XXIV. Talus slope on east bluff of Devil's Lake
XXV. Dorward's Glen
XXVI. Natural Bridge near Denzer
XXVII. The Navy Yard
XXVIII. Chimney Rock
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