The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin / With Some Notes on Its Surface Geology

by Rollin D. Salisbury; Wallace Walter Atwood

[ [10] ] The preglacial course was probably east of the present in the vicinity of Kilbourn City.

[ [11] ] Irving. Geology of Wisconsin, Vol. II.

[ [12] ] Chamberlin and Irving. Geology of Wisconsin, Vols. I and II.

INDEX.

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PAGES
Ablemans	[66], [67]
Baraboo Lake	[130]
Baraboo Quartzite ranges	[2], [65]
Constitution of	[14]
Dynamic action in	[15], [17], [18]
Gaps in—
Devil's Lake Gap	[3], [13]
Lower Narrows	[5], [13], [67]
Narrows Creek	[66]
Upper Narrows	[5], [10], [17], [19], [67]
Igneous rock in	[18]
Structure of	[15]
Topography of	[5], [13]
Base-level	[47]
Base-level plains	[50]
Bowlder clay	[97]
Breccia	[18]
Castle Rock	[71]
Cleopatra's Needle	[65]
Cold Water Canyon	[70]
Conglomerate	[10], [28]
Basal (Potsdam)	[29]
Corrasion	[36]
Cross-bedding	[30]
Cycle of erosion	[44], [47]
Dalles of the Wisconsin	[69]
Origin of	[53]
Scenery of	[69], [140]
Dell Creek	[53]
Deltas	[30], [56], [120]
Deposits—
By extra-glacial waters	[115-123]
By ice	[85], [94]
By rivers	[55], [56]
By subglacial streams	[124]
Of drift classified	[127]
Devil's Doorway	[65]
Devil's Lake	[132]
History of	[132]
In glacial times	[132]
Location	[3], [9]
Origin of	[132]
Devil's Nose	[5], [110]
Divides, Shifting of	[44]
Dorward's Glen	[10], [14], [29], [68]
Drift	[73]
Characteristics of	[96]
Constitution of	[94]
Deposits classified	[127]
Effect on topography	[85], [88]
Relation of stratified to unstratified	[125]
Stratified	[111]
Topography of	[101], [103]
Driftless area	[79], [142]
Drainage—
Adjustment of	[62]
Changes in, effected by the ice	[128], [142]
Establishment of	[61]
Glacial	[113]
Of drift-covered area	[144]
Of driftless area	[144]
Postglacial changes in	[146]
Endmoräne	[108]
Erosion—
By rain, and rivers, general outline of	[36-58]
Elements of	[36]
Of folded strata	[50]
Of rocks of unequal hardness	[47]
Of the quartzite	[25]
Preglacial	[60]
Topography	[12]
Without valleys	[37]
Eskers	[124]
Falls	[48]
Fossils—
In limestone	[12]
In sandstone	[9], [11]
Friendship mounds	[71]
Geographic features, general	[3-20]
Glacial drainage	[113]
Glaciated area	[78], [91], [143]
Glacier ice—
Deposition by	[85]
Direction of movement	[88]
Erosive work of	[79-84]
Formation of	[74]
Movement of, affected by topography	[89]
Glens	[68]
Green Bay lobe	[91]
Gibraltar rock	[63]
Ground Moraine—
Constitution of	[99]
Location of	[97]
Topography of	[101]
Groundwater level	[41]
Ice sheets—
Formation of	[74]
History of	[114]
Movement of	[75], [88]
North American ice sheet	[78]
Igneous rock	[18]
Intermittent streams	[42]
Kames	[115]
Lakes—
Wisconsin Lake	[129]
Baraboo Lake	[130]
Devil's Lake	[3], [9], [132], [137]
Limestone, see Lower Magnesian.
Lower Magnesian limestone—
Fossils of	[12]
History of	[31-32]
Occurrence of	[11]
Origin of	[11]
Position of	[12]
Structure of	[8]
Lower Narrows	[5], [13], [67]
Mantle rock	[20], [144]
Metamorphism	[14], [24]
Monadnocks	[51]
Moraines (see terminal moraine and ground moraine).
Morainic aprons	[119]
Narrows	[49]
In quartzite	[66], [67]
Natural bridge	[69]
Navy Yard	[69]
Niagara limestone	[33]
North American ice sheet	[78]
Nunatak	[89]
Osars (see Eskers).
Outwash plains	[118], [120]
Overwash plains	[118], [120]
Parfrey's Glen	[10], [14], [29], [68]
Peneplain	[47], [50]
Pewit's nest	[9], [53], [69]
Pine Hollow	[69]
Postglacial changes	[146]
Potsdam sandstone—
Fossils of	[9], [11]
History of	[27-31]
Origin of	[9-11]
Relation to quartzite	[19]
Structure of	[8]
Quartzite (see also Baraboo quartzite ranges)—
Dynamic Metamorphism of	[24]
Erosion of	[25]
Origin of	[23]
Submergence of	[27]
Thickness of	[26]
Uplift of	[24]
Rapids	[48]
Rejuvenation of streams	[56]
Ripple marks	[9], [15]
Roches mountennée	[81]
Sandstone (see Potsdam and St. Peters).
Sauk Prarie	[117], [118], [119]
Skillett Creek	[8], [53], [138]
Slope of upper surface of ice	[111]
Snow fields	[74]
Soil	[7], [144], [146]
Stand rock	[70]
Steamboat rock	[70]
St. Peter's sandstone	[32]
Stratified drift	[111-112], [125]
Streams, changes in	[138]
Subaqueous overwash plains	[120]
Subglacial till (ground moraines)	[99]
Sugar Bowl	[70]
Talus slopes	[65]
Terminal moraines—
Across the United States	[78]
Development of	[102]
In Devil's Lake region	[105]
Boundaries of	[106]
Location of	[92], [93], [108]
On the main quartzite range	[107]
Width of	[106]
Topography of	[103]
Till	[97]
Topography—
Effect of, on ice movement	[89]
Erosion topography	[12]
Of drift-covered country	[8], [143]
Of driftless area	[6], [7], [12], [143]
Of plain surrounding quartzite ridge	[6]
Of quartzite ridges	[5]
Transportation by streams	[55]
Tributary valleys	[39]
Turk's Head	[65]
Unconformity	[19]
Underground water	[58]
Unglaciated areas	[79], [142], [143]
Unstratified drift	[99], [102], [125]
Upper Narrows	[5], [10], [17], [19], [67]
Valley, the—
Beginning of	[37]
Characteristics of, at various stages	[52-54]
Course of	[39]
How a valley gets a stream	[40]
Limits of	[43]
Valley trains	[116]
Waterfalls	[48]
Weathering	[36]
Webster's Prarie	[119]
Wisconsin Lake	[129]
Wisconsin River	[139]
Witch's Gulch	[70]