Iowa's Loess Hills - A National Treasure

Authors

Donald R. Farrar, Iowa State UniversityFollow
Dean M. Roosa, Iowa Conservation CommissionFollow
Jean C. Prior, Iowa Geological SurveyFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

A narrow band of unusual hills skirts the Missouri River valley along Iowa's western border. The steep, sharply ridged topography and the predominance of native grass and woodland cover stand in marked contrast to the orderly rolling farm fields to the east and the broad cultivated floodplain of the Missouri River to the west. These high, narrow-spurred ridges, steep slopes, and deep ravines constitute the Iowa landform region known as the Loess Hills.

Publication Date

December 1985

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

92

Issue

5

First Page

157

Last Page

158

Copyright

© Copyright 1985 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Farrar, Donald R.; Roosa, Dean M.; and Prior, Jean C. (1985) "Iowa's Loess Hills - A National Treasure," Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science, 92(5), 157-158.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/pias/vol92/iss5/3