Author: United States Bureau Of Land Management

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-18

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 9780364944813

Excerpt from Preliminary Land Planning and Classification Report of the Public Domain Lands in the Little Missouri River Basin, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota: A Missouri River Basin Investigation The topography of the basin ranges in elevation from 2, 000 feet at the confluence of the Little Missouri and the Missouri Rivers to 4, 000 feet in the headwaters of the basin. The difference in relief within the badland formation is approximately 450 feet. The channel gradient of the Little Missouri is about 5 feet per mile and throughout its length the river follows a meandering course. Sandbars. Pools and shallow areas are common and may change position from year to year. Figure 1 illustrates the broad topographic divisions within the basin. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.