scholarly journals Summary of the ground-water resources of the Laramie River drainage basin, Wyoming, and the North Platte River drainage basin from Douglas, Wyoming, to the Wyoming-Nebraska state line

1955 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Ground Water ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Platte River ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
The North ◽  
River Drainage Basin

Uranium isotopes in the Platte River drainage basin of the North American High plains Region

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel D. Snow ◽  
Roy F. Spalding
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Uranium Isotopes ◽  
High Plains ◽  
Platte River ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
The North ◽  
River Drainage Basin

Water Resources in the Salado River Drainage Basin, Buenos Aires, Argentina: Chemical and Microbiological Characteristics

2004 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-90
Author(s):  
Griselda Galindo ◽  
María Alejandra Herrero ◽  
Sonia Korol ◽  
Alicia Fernández Cirelli
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
Microbiological Characteristics ◽  
Salado River ◽  
River Drainage Basin

scholarly journals Topographic Map Analysis of Mountain Passes Crossing the Continental Divide Between Colorado River Headwaters and North and South Platte River Headwaters to Test a New Geomorphology Paradigm, Colorado, USA

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Eric Clausen
Keyword(s):  
Colorado River ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Platte River ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
South Platte River ◽  
Continental Divide ◽  
South Platte ◽  
North And South ◽  
River Drainage Basin

Detailed topographic maps are used to identify and briefly describe named (and a few unnamed) mountain passes crossing high elevation east-west continental divide segments encircling south- and southwest-oriented Colorado River headwaters and linking the Colorado River drainage basin (draining to the Pacific Ocean) with the North and South Platte River drainage basins (draining to the Platte, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers and Gulf of Mexico). Previous researchers following commonly accepted geomorphology paradigm rules have not explained how most, if any of these mountain passes originated. A recently proposed geomorphology paradigm requires all Missouri River drainage basin valleys to have eroded headward across massive south- and southeast-oriented floods, which implies south- and southeast-oriented floods flowed from what are today north-oriented North Platte River headwaters across the continental divide, the present-day south- and southwest-oriented Colorado River headwaters valley, and then across what is now the continental divide a second time to reach east- and southeast-oriented South Platte River headwaters. Paradigms are rules determining how a scientific discipline governs its research and by themselves are neither correct nor incorrect and are judged on their ability to explain observed evidence. From the new paradigm perspective, a stream eroded each of the passes into a rising mountain range until the uplift rate outpaced the erosion rate and forced a flow reversal in what would have been the upstream valley. The passes and the valleys leading in both directions from the continental divide are best explained if diverging and converging south- and southeast-oriented flood flow channels crossed rising mountain ranges. While explaining observed drainage patterns and erosional landforms such an interpretation requires a fundamentally different regional middle and late Cenozoic glacial and geologic history than what previous investigators using the accepted paradigm perspective have described.

scholarly journals Risk Analysis of Water Resources Crisis in the Lancang - Mekong River Drainage Basin under the Background of Climate Change

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 209 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ren Zhang ◽  
Hengwan Zou ◽  
Mei Hong ◽  
Aixia Zhou ◽  
Gang Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Resources ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Mekong River ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
River Drainage Basin

All mixed up: Pb isotopic constraints on the transit of sands through the Mississippi-Missouri River drainage basin, North America

2019 ◽  
Vol 131 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1501-1518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aoife Blowick ◽  
Peter Haughton ◽  
Shane Tyrrell ◽  
John Holbrook ◽  
David Chew ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Mississippi River ◽  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Volcanic Rocks ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
Accessory Mineral ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
The North ◽  
River Drainage Basin

Abstract Pb isotope data from over 2400 detrital K-feldspars in >50 modern sands sampled across the Mississippi-Missouri River drainage basin of North America have been collected in order to construct the first basin-wide provenance model using geochemical signals in a framework, rather than an accessory, mineral. This study represents a critical initial step in understanding the long-term routing of framework sand grains through the Mississippi-Missouri River drainage basin. Four unique Pb isotopic groups, otherwise petrographically and geochemically indistinguishable, are identifiable. Source comparisons reveal two groups corresponding to the Archean Superior and Wyoming terranes to the north of the catchment. The remaining two Pb groups represent a mixture of Appalachian, Grenville and older Granite-Rhyolite, and Yavapai-Mazatzal sourced-grains in the east of the catchment, with noteworthy input from Cenozoic volcanic rocks along the western fringe of the catchment to tributaries west of the Mississippi River, confirming prior assertions of zircon recycling in the lower drainage basin. Tracing suites of Pb isotopic groups provide a detailed map of previously undocumented tributary mixing and reveals the importance of long-lived, naturally formed impoundments in the Upper Mississippi River, which locally sequester and release sand. Tentative proportioning of sediment contributions to the terminus of the Mississippi River from individual tributaries produces similar results to recent U-Pb zircon models, boding well for the use of framework grain based modeling of sediment fluxes. The study is the largest application of Pb-in-K-feldspar fingerprinting to date and advocates its potential as a new and necessary tool for constraining relative source contributions to sinks—which will have wide applicability—especially if combined with provenance information from detrital grains of varying resilience, within large drainage systems.

scholarly journals Origin of the Redwater River Drainage Basin Determined by Topographic Map Interpretation: Eastern Montana, USA

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 42
Author(s):  
Eric Clausen
Keyword(s):  
Drainage Basin ◽  
Missouri River ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Dry Valleys ◽  
Topographic Map ◽  
Yellowstone River ◽  
River Drainage ◽  
The North ◽  
Map Interpretation ◽  
River Drainage Basin

Topographic and geologic map interpretation strongly suggests the eastern Montana Redwater River valley eroded headward across large southeast-oriented ice-marginal melt water floods. The north-oriented Redwater River heads in an area to the south of recognized continental glaciation and flows into the recognized glaciated region before joining the east-oriented Missouri River. Detailed topographic maps show the eastern drainage divide is asymmetric with steeper slopes on the Redwater River side and is crossed by shallow dry valleys linking northwest-oriented Redwater River tributaries with southeast-oriented streams that flow as barbed tributaries to the northeast-oriented Yellowstone River. The western drainage divide is also crossed by shallow dry valleys linking northwest-oriented drainage routes to north-oriented Missouri River tributaries with southeast-oriented and barbed tributaries to the northeast- and north-oriented Redwater River. Alluvium from upstream Yellowstone River source areas found within the Redwater River drainage basin suggests the Redwater River and much longer Yellowstone River valleys eroded headward from a continental ice sheet margin as headward erosion of the larger Yellowstone River valley across the southeast-oriented flood flow was supplemented by northeast- and north-oriented flow moving at the present day Redwater-Yellowstone River drainage divide elevation.

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