Alex Larrabee

ELK RIVER QUAD SHERBURNE

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LOCATION

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ESKERS

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RIVERS

Mississippi River

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SCOUR MARKS

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The region or area drained by a river, stream, etc.; drainage area. – dictionary.com

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Till over ice-contact deposits: Consist of poorly sorted sand and gravel; layers of silty sand to cobble gravel; little to no shale; deposited be meltwater flowing on, under, or adjacent to the ice.

NORTH WEST QUARTER

gsiIce-walled lake deposits: Lacustrine sediment consisting of predominantly very fine- to medium-grained sand. Interpreted to have been deposited in a lake within stagnant ice. As the ice melted, the lake sediment remained as a high plateau on the landscape.

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Till/sand complex: Mixture of sediments including till, ice-contact sand and gravel, and minor lacustrine deposits

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NORTH EAST QUARTER

Glacial lake deposits: Lacustrine sediment consisting of very fine- to medium-grained sand; no gravel. In places the fine-grained sand has been sculpted by wind to form dunes.

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SOUTH WEST QUARTER

Till- Unsorted sediment consisting of pebbles (abundant, cobbles (common), and boulders (rare) in a loamy matrix; pockets of silt, sand,and gravel in places.

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Alluvium – terrace deposits: Fluvial sediments laid down during early, high stages of the Mississippi River and preserved as terraces above the modern floodplain. Predominantly medium – to coarse-grained sand with up to 40 percent gravel.

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SOUTH EAST QUARTERAlluvium – terrace deposits: Fluvial sediments laid down during early, high stages of the Mississippi River and preserved as terraces above the modern floodplain. Predominantly medium – to coarse-grained sand with up to 40 percent gravel.

Alluvium – floodplain deposits: River-channel, overbank, and slackwater sediments consisting predominantly medium- to coarse-grained sand; interbedded with sandy loam to silt loam; layers of sand and gravel. Organic debris may be disseminated in the sediments and/or form discrete peat beds.

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WATER – WELL

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ICE MARGIN

IRREGULAR TROUGH

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SOIL ACIDITY

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DfaHumid Continental

Humid with severe winter, no dry season, hot summer

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DfbHumid Continental

Humid with severe winter, no dry season, hot summer

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MINNEAPOLIS CLIMOGRAPH

ELK RIVER WEATHERJan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec

Avg. High 22⁰ 28⁰ 40⁰ 57⁰ 71⁰ 78⁰ 84⁰ 81⁰ 72⁰ 60⁰ 42⁰ 27⁰

Avg. Low 1⁰ 7⁰ 20⁰ 34⁰ 45⁰ 55⁰ 58⁰ 57⁰ 48⁰ 37⁰ 24⁰ 8⁰

Mean 12⁰ 18⁰ 31⁰ 46⁰ 58⁰ 67⁰ 72⁰ 68⁰ 60⁰ 48⁰ 34⁰ 18⁰

Avg. Precip. 0.8in 0.7in 1.6in 2.6in 3.7in 4.4in 4.1in 3.8in 3.3in 2.4in 1.6in 1.0in

Degrees in Fahrenheit

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Current Conditions

SE Elk River, Elk River, Minnesota (PWS)Updated: 1 min 29 sec ago

59.7 °F Mostly Cloudy

Humidity: 38%Dew Point: 34 °F Wind: 5.8 mph from the West Wind Gust: 8.7 mph Pressure: 31.01 in (Rising) Visibility: 10.0 miles UV: 4 out of 16

Clouds: Mostly Cloudy 6000 ft (Above Ground Level)

Elevation: 954 ft

FORECAST/WEATHER5-2-2010

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FORECAST/WEATHER

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ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATIONSYSTEM

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Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province (222)

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ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATIONSYSTEM

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Minnesota and Northeast Iowa Morainal Section (222M)

Anoka Sand Plain Subsection (222Mc)

ANOKA SAND PLAINLandform: Consists of a sandy lake plain. Also found are small sand dunes, kettle lakes and tunnel valleys. Some ground and end moraine . Sandy terraces formed y the Mississippi River.

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A kettle lake

Bedrock Geology: Cambrian and Ordovician dolomite, sandstone, and shale. Can be found exposed in St. Cloud.

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Dolomite Sandstone

Shale

MINNESOTA BEDROCK

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Sedimentary Rock- Limestone- Shale

- Sandstone

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GLOBAL SOIL REGIONS