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Document Type
Research
Abstract
About one-half mile above the confluence of the Iowa and Cedar Rivers, the Iowa makes a great bend from a southwesterly to a southeasterly direction. The river on the outerside of this curve is rapidly cutting at the base of a high bluff for a distance of about one-third of a mile. The bluff extends beyond at each end, bounding the flood plain, but at some distance from the stream. The bluff is composed chiefly of Kansan drift overlain by Iowan loess, which creeps rapidly riverward when saturated with water.
Publication Date
1902
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Sciences
Volume
10
Issue
1
First Page
54
Last Page
56
Copyright
©1902 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Simpson, Howard E.
(1902)
"The Accretion of Flood Plains by Means of Sand Bars,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 10(1), 54-56.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol10/iss1/11