Detailed Long Profile of the Lower Chippewa River : Evidence of Ongoing Episodic Incision

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2013-05Author
Wick, Nathaniel Scott
Krueger, Samuel Adams
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Faulkner, Douglas J.
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During the Late Wisconsin ice age, the Lower
Chippewa River (LCR) served as an important
meltwater stream and aggraded, partially filling
its valley with glacial outwash. Subsequently, the
river incised into the outwash forming a series
of terraces, of which the Wissota Terrace is the
highest (home of the University of Wisconsin--Eau Claire upper campus). Irregularities on a long profile constructed from 1:24,000 topographic maps suggest that episodic incision is still occurring along the LCR thousands of years after it began (a long profile shows change in elevation over the distance of the river). The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that episodic incision is still occurring today.
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Episodic incision--Wisconsin--Lower Chippewa River
Lower Chippewa River (Wis.)
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