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Document Type
Research
Abstract
Lake Macbride, an artificial lake located in Johnson county, Iowa, a few miles north of Iowa City, was established by building a dam below the junction of two small creeks. The resulting basin is somewhat V-shaped with approximately 8 miles of shoreline. The lake bed is for the most part loess excepting a few small sandy areas and the alluvial deposits next to the old creek channels. The shoreline toward the dam is rather abrupt, the south shore being of the exposed limestone type. With few exceptions the rest of the shoreline is either loess or loess-capped. The border lands of the lake are still mostly wooded, the cleared portions having been pastured or cultivated.
Publication Date
1936
Journal Title
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science
Volume
43
Issue
1
First Page
127
Last Page
131
Copyright
©1936 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Pierson, Edgar F.
(1936)
"The Vascular Flora of the Area to be Submerged by Lake MacBride,"
Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 43(1), 127-131.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol43/iss1/16