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Document Type
Research
Abstract
The term paha was first applied to isolated knobs and ridges within what we now know as the Iowan drift border by McGee, who refers to them as "loess-capped eminences, sometimes elongated to ridges miles in length, sometimes shortened to elliptical hills," and again describes the individual paha as an "elongated swell of soft and graceful contour, standing apart on the plain or else connected with its fellows sometimes in long lines, again in congeries, and locally merging to form broad loess plateaus."
Publication Date
1908
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
15
Issue
1
First Page
117
Last Page
135
Copyright
©1908 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Shimek, B.
(1908)
"The Loess of the Paha and River-Ridge,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 15(1), 117-135.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol15/iss1/20