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Landform Sediment Assemblages in the Upper Mississippi Valley, St. Cloud to St. Paul, for Support of Cultural Resource Investigations

Prepared for:
Minnesota Department of Transportation

Prepared by:
Edwin R. Hajic

Edited by:
Curtis M. Hudak
Foth Infrastructure and Environment, LLC

June 2002

• Report Text
• Appendix A: Map Unit Field Code Key Table
• Appendix B: Upper Mississippi Valley Core Descriptions
• Appendix C: Macrobotanical Composition of Potential Radiocarbon Samples

Figures (PDF)

• Figure 1: Location of the upper Mississippi Valley project area
• Figure 2: GIS coverage of the Mississippi Valley, St. Cloud to St. Paul
• Figure 3: Vertical aerial photograph illustrating braided stream and braid bar pattern
• Figure 4: Longitudinal profile of the Mississippi Valley between St. Cloud and St. Paul
• Figure 5: Vertical aerial photograph illustrating large-magnitude flood channels just downstream from St. Cloud
• Figure 6: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the CPC, LLB, and FMB landform sediment assemblages along a transect containing cores 01ST01-03
• Figure 7a: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the CPC landform sediment assemblage at core locations 01SH01 and 01WI01
• Figure 7b: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the CPC landform sediment assemblage at core locations 01SH01 and 01WI01
• Figure 8a: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the CPCMA landform sediment assemblage along a transect containing cores 01BE01-02 and at core location 01SH03
• Figure 8b: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the CPCMA landform sediment assemblage along a transect containing cores 01BE01-02 and at core location 01SH03
• Figure 9: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the CPCMA landform sediment assemblage along a transect containing cores 01ST04-07
• Figure 10: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the CPC landform sediment assemblage at core location 01ST10
• Figure 11: Vertical aerial photograph illustrating ice block depressions on catastrophic flood surfaces
• Figure 12: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the CD and LLB landform sediment assemblages along a transect containing cores 01ST08-09
• Figure 13: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the LLBMA landform sediment assemblages along a transect containing cores 01SH15-17
• Figure 14: Vertical aerial photograph illustrating a VT2 terrace remnant with relict island braided pattern
• Figure 15a: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the VT2 and VB2 landform sediment assemblages along transects containing cores 01SH04-05, 01SH06-07, 01SH08-09, and 01SH18
• Figure 15b: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the VT2 and VB2 landform sediment assemblages along transects containing cores 01SH04-05, 01SH06-07, 01SH08-09, and 01SH18
• Figure 15c: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the VT2 and VB2 landform sediment assemblages along transects containing cores 01SH04-05, 01SH06-07, 01SH08-09, and 01SH18
• Figure 15d: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the VT2 and VB2 landform sediment assemblages along transects containing cores 01SH04-05, 01SH06-07, 01SH08-09, and 01SH18
• Figure 16: Vertical aerial photograph illustrating a VT1 terrace remnant
• Figure 17: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the VT1 landform sediment assemblage along a transect containing cores 01SH10-11
• Figure 18: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the VT1 and FFW landform sediment assemblages along a transect containing cores 01SH12-14
• Figure 19: Graphic sediment/soil logs of the VT1MA landform sediment assemblage along a transect containing cores 01ST11-12
• Figure 20: Vertical aerial photograph illustrating a Mississippi River segment with straight channel morphology
• Figure 21: Vertical aerial photograph illustrating a Mississippi River segment with meandering channel morphology
• Figure 22: Vertical aerial photograph illustrating a Mississippi River segment with island braided channel morphology
• Figure 23: Vertical aerial photograph illustrating an island with multiple floodplain surfaces
• Figure 24: Vertical aerial photograph illustrating changes in meandering channel width through time
• Figure 25: Graphic sediment/soil log of the FFW landform sediment assemblage at core location 01SH02
• Figure 26: Vertical aerial photograph illustrating a relict spring-fed channel complex that supplied water to a fen
• Figure 27: Vertical aerial photograph illustrating multiple beach ridges surrounding a lake in an ice block depression