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	Coteau des Prairies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Coteau des Prairies: orange arrows indicate paths of the two lobes of the glacier around either side of the formation.
		The Coteau des Prairies is a plateau, approximately 200 miles in length and 100 miles in width (320 by 160 km), rising from the prairie flatlands in eastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and Northwestern Iowa in the United States.
		The southeast portion of the Coteau comprises one of the distinct regions of Minnesota, called Buffalo Ridge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coteau_des_Prairies (267 words)

	The Coteau des Prairies
		The north-pointing, flatiron-shaped Coteau des Prairies in eastern South Dakota is one of the the most conspicuous landforms of the middle U.S. on this map.
		The stream divide that was in place on either side of the Coteau (French for "hill") is probably the point at which the last Pleistocene ice sheet divided into lobes on either side of the formation.
		The James River Lobe on the west and the Des Moines Lobe to the east moved south beside the Coteau in pre-glacial stream valleys.
	www.nationalatlas.gov /articles/geology/features/coteau.html (176 words)

	THE GLACIAL LAKE AGASSIZ--Chapter II
		The altitude of the Coteau des Prairies is due to the Upper Cretaceous formations, here spared and left by preglacial erosion as a broad and high ridge, upon which the drift deposits lie, rather than to extraordinary thickness of the drift beyond that which it commonly has on the lowlands at each side.
		From the Head of the Coteau des Prairies for 140 miles north to the latitude of Larimore and Devils Lake the highland bordering the west side of the Red River Valley rises by such gentle slopes that it is not generally seen conspicuously from the flat plain of this valley.
		Topographically, this line of conspicuous highlands is allied with the Coteau des Prairies by their together forming the western ascent from the broad, continuous valley plain, which in its southeast part passes from the Red River Valley to the lowland of the basin of the Minnesota River.
	www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu /govdocs/text/lakeagassiz/chapter2.html (16122 words)

	NPWRC :: Regional Landscape
		DISCUSSION: The coteau is typified by highly dissected, loess-covered till plains that are Illinoian, pre-Illinoian, and late Wisconsinan in age (Lehr and Gilbertson 1988).
		The Lake Benton-Adrien Coteau (II.2.2) is a landscape of rolling moraine ridges of late Wisconsinan drift mantled with loess 1 to 3 feet thick.
		The prairies were drier in this subsection than in Subsection II.1, accounting for the prevalence of prairie plants characteristic of midgrass prairies further to the west.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/habitat/rlandscp/sub2-2.htm (618 words)

	Park Info: Kilen Woods State Park: Minnesota DNR
		This Coteau des Prairie, "highland of the prairie" held grand views of prairies, rivers and lakes surrounding the area.
		Kilen Woods lies on the eastern edge of this region he called the "Coteau des Prairies." The treaty of Traverse de Sioux of 1851 opened this hilly prairie country to the first pioneers and settlers.
		Scattered bur oak trees, wild plums and hawthorns occur among prairie grasses and wildflowers at the edge of the Des Moines River Valley.
	www.dnr.state.mn.us /state_parks/kilen_woods/narrative.html (593 words)

	Coteau des Prairies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The portion of the Coteau des Prairies in South Dakota measures 100 miles in its greatest width, 200 miles in length, and is composed of glacial sediments from numerous glaciations.
		This is important because a large number of aquifers used as sources of drinking water and for irrigation by South Dakota farmers are within the glacial sand and gravel deposits of the Coteau des Prairie.
		Currently, the Geological Survey is conducting aquifer delineation studies in the area of the Coteau des Prairie; thus, the possible collaborative studies would also help to further our understanding of aquifers in the area.
	www.sdgs.usd.edu /collstudies/Coteau (342 words)

	NPWRC :: Regional Landscape
		1966, Morey 1981); and numerous outcrops of Precambrian quartzite on the Coteau des Prairies and elsewhere (Wright 1972).
		Farther to the east, prairie exists in a broken mosaic, indicating either past conditions that allowed the prairie to expand there, or anthropomorphic expansion of the prairie through burn management.
		The correspondence of continuous prairie to this boundary is only approximate because the characteristics of a given section of boundary, i.e., the size of water bodies or ridges, determine the sharpness of the prairie/woodland boundary.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/habitat/rlandscp/sec2.htm (1326 words)

	Coteau du Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Coteau du Missouri, or Missouri Plateau, is a large plateau that stretches along the eastern side of the valley of the Missouri River in central North Dakota and north central South Dakota in the United States.
		To the east of the plateau, the lowland valley of the James River was formed by the lobe of the most recent ice age, separating the plateau from the Coteau des Prairies to the east.
		Agriculturally the plateau is a grain and livestock region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coteau_du_Missouri (224 words)

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		Hence it is that the Indian hunting parties, proceeding upon their winter chase across the Coteau des Prairies to the Coteau du Missouri, always take this route; not only, perhaps, for the supply of wood, but also in the expectation of meeting with game.
		This table land may be considered as a continuation of the Coteau des Prairies ; the head of which having yielded, to make way for the passage of the Shayenoju, rises again to form the dividing ridge be-' tween the head waters of the Tchan-sansan and those of the Red river of the North.
		This extension of the Coteau des Prairies goes on blending it- self with the ascending plains that rise towards the Rocky Mountains, and that divide the waters of the Missouri from those of the long river Sas- katchawan, that empties into the great Winipik lake.
	memory.loc.gov /master/gc/gcmisc/gcfr/0100/00490047.txt (621 words)

	South Dakota's Physiographic Regions
		Prairies rises sharply, nearly 1,000 feet (305 m), to form the western limit of this division lowland.
		During the Ice Age, the Coteau was covered by glaciers that deposited glacial drift over its surface.
		on the east and the Coteau du Missouri on the west.
	www.northern.edu /natsource/EARTH/Physio1.htm (1872 words)

	MPCA - Upper Minnesota River Watershed
		The Coteau des Prairies or Highland of the Prairies, so named by French explorers, is a morainal plateau that occupies the headwaters of the Upper Minnesota River and several other rivers.
		The Coteau is characterized by landscapes with long northeast facing slopes which are undulating to rolling (2-18%).
		The Lac Qui Parle River originates in the Coteau des Prairies, flows northeast through the prairies of the southwest, then confluences with the Minnesota River by Watson.
	www.pca.state.mn.us /water/basins/mnriver/uppermn.html (2450 words)

	SCA Destination Finder
		Wildlife: 150 years ago, buffalo, elk, wolves, prairie chickens, and golden eagles were an integral part of life here.
		Geology: Camden lies in an area of southwestern Minnesota called the "Coteau des Prairies" which means highland of the prairie.
		In the fall, goldenrods, asters, and gentians bloom on the prairie.
	www.getoutdoors.com /sca/destination_description/1493.html (468 words)

	Pipestone County Museum - Where Are We?
		It was virtually devoid of trees, with native grasses growing as tall as 6 to 8 feet throughout much of the county.
		Pipestone County is situated atop the "Coteau des Prairies", a watershed divide ranging in elevation from 1700 to 2000 feet above sea level, some of the highest land in the state.
		Animal inhabitants included bison, elk, cougar, wolves, prairie chickens, and the county's numerous acres of wetlands abounded with water fowl and other birds.
	www.pipestoneminnesota.com /museum/where.htm (186 words)

	Pipestone NM: Administrative History (Chapter 1)
		The flatiron-shaped plateau that is the Coteau des Prairies stretches across southwestern Minnesota into South Dakota, with the land elevated by the remains of an ancient mountain range.
		Tallgrass prairie covered the southwestern part of the state, where the common grasses were big bluestem, little bluestem, Indian grass, prairie clover, goldenrod, and pasque flower.
		The crest of the Coteau des Prairies crosses the northeastern corner of Pipestone County, producing a rough, irregular topography with elevations reaching 1,900 feet.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/pipe/adhi1.htm (5033 words)

	Coteau des Prairies RC&D
		The Coteau des Prairies Resource Conservation and Development (RCandD) Association is a nonprofit organization located in Southwestern Minnesota, U.S.A. RCandD is an acronym for Resource Conservation and Development.
		The Coteau des Prairies RCandD Council is currently in the applicant process to seek funding through USDA.
		Council Vision Statement: The vision of the Coteau des Prairies RCandD is a strong, prosperous economy that provides diverse opportunities for all citizens; while maintaining a sustained natural resource base and a quality environment with a well educated, healthy citizenry who contribute to viable and safe communities.
	www.mn.nrcs.usda.gov /partnerships/coteau (614 words)

	ES 331/767 Lecture 16
		The Missouri Coteau, Prairie Coteau and Turtle Mountains are prominent uplands that guided ice-lobe movement along the intervening lowlands.
		Northern margin of the Prairie Coteau, a prominent glacial upland in eastern South Dakota and southwestern Minnesota.
		Ice-shoved ridges on the Missouri Coteau are direct or first-order morphologic expressions of bedrock structures produced by ice pushing.
	academic.emporia.edu /aberjame/ice/lec16/lec16.htm (1932 words)

	IOWA - Portrait of the Land - A Century of Change: 1800 to 1900
		At the beginning of the century, a blanket of prairie cloaked three-quarters of this "land between two rivers." Pothole marshes dotted the flatter north-central part of the state, while a network of streams laced the rolling hills elsewhere across Iowa.
		Most of the prairie sod was turned under with oxen and breaking plows and later with steel plows.
		The terrain of the "Coteau des Prairies," the high ground of pothole wetlands that track the route of the last glacier through the eastern Dakotas, is noted extending into north-central Iowa.
	www.igsb.uiowa.edu /portrait/3change/Change.htm (2719 words)

	Digital Shaded Relief Map of the Prairie Coteau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Prairie Coteau is one of the most remarkable landforms in North America.
		Although ice from both lobes overlapped onto the Coteau (leaving prominent moraines), not all of the Coteau was ice-covered during this glaciation.
		Ray Sterner (Johns Hopkins University) provides a spectacular AVHRR image of South Dakota, with the Prairie Coteau displayed prominently in the northeastern corner of the image.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /ndsu/nd_geology/nd_maps/nd_map4.htm (338 words)

	Coteau Des Prairies Hospital - Home
		Coteau Des Prairies (CDP) Hospital and Clinic is a 31 bed, acute care, community non-profit hospital, serving approximately 21,000 residents in the Glacial Lakes Region in north east South Dakota, and west central Minnesota.
		CDP Hospital, Inc. owns and operates the attached certified rural health clinic in Sisseton; the Browns Valley Clinic; which is located in Browns Valley, Minnesota; and the Wilmot Clinic, Wilmot, South Dakota.
		The hospital opened in 1967, and in 1996, a 14,000 square foot new addition and remodeling project, which cost $2.4 million, was completed.
	www.cdphospital.com (227 words)

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		This wedge-shaped Coteau des Prairies starts around Sioux Falls and extends barely over the North Dakota border to the town of Geneseo, a few miles north of Sisseton.
		As the ice melted, water from the Coteau des Prairies began to flow into three major river systems on the continent.
		Redfield is similar to many prairie towns created by the arrival of the railroad, but with a difference.
	www.geocities.com /cd19/tour_sd.html (6353 words)

	Pipestone National Monument - Nature & Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Pipestone National Monument sits on the Coteau des Prairies (ko-toe-day pray-ree), French for 'highland of the prairie.' It is shaped like a triangular wedge pointing north.
		Within the Coteau are many layers of debris (called till) deposited by ice that advanced many times during the Pleistocene Epoch, better known as the 'Ice Age.' Many of the tills are believed to be between 800,000 and 500,000 years old.
		The Coteau was carved from the land, like an island between two streams of ice.
	www.nps.gov /pipe/pphtml/subnaturalfeatures13.html (277 words)

	Minnesota River Watershed
		A major physiograhic feature of the Minnesota River Basin is the Coteau des Prairies, a morainal area that occupies the headwater regions of the Upper Minnesota, Lac qui Parle, Yellow Medicine, Redwood, and Cottonwood Basins.
		The altitude of the land surface rises abruptly in the Coteau des Prairies, form 960 feet at Big Stone Lake at the base of the Coteau des Prairies to more than 2000 feet near the summit.
		The Coteau des Prairies area has not been extensively drained and contains numerous lakes and wetlands, many of which are located in closed noncontributing subbasins, Annual precipitation is lower in the Coteau des Prairies are than in other parts of the basin, as is annual runoff.
	kare.iewatershed.com /index.php?pagename=ow_watershed_minnesota (2046 words)

	3D Anaglyph of the Prairie Coteau, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota
		The Coteau des Prairies (Prairie Coteau) is the prominent, wedge-shaped landform whose point just juts into southeastern North Dakota.
		Although the Coteau is cored by bedrock, outcrops of bedrock are limited.
		During the last (Wisconsinan) glaciation, ice of the Red River Lobe was split by the Coteau into two lobes: the Des Moines Lobe, which passed southeastward toward Des Moines, Iowa, and the James Lobe, which passed southward toward the Missouri River Valley.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /nd_geology/anaglyph/ana_pc.htm (437 words)

	Coteau des Prairies - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Coteau des Prairies is a plateau, approximately 200 miles in length and 100 miles in width, rising from the prairie flatlands in eastern South Dakota in the United States.
		Glacial History (http://www.sdgs.usd.edu/collstudies/Coteau/) of Coteau des Praries (University of South Dakota).
		Early Observations of the Coteau des Prairies (http://search.ancestry.com/db-lhbum01092/P29.aspx)
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Coteau_des_Prairies (226 words)

	Profile of Sisseton
		The series of hills named the Coteau des Prairies roughly bisects the area, separating the James and Big Sioux Rivers in the west (which drain into the Missouri River) from the Minnesota River to the east (which flows into Big Stone Lake and later flows into the Mississippi).
		The entire Coteau des Prairies or “hills of the prairies”, is a glacial moraine formation.
		HOSPITAL and CLINIC: Coteau Des Prairies (CDP) Hospital and Clinic is a 31 bed, acute care, community non-profit hospital, serving approximately 14,000 residents in the Glacial Lakes Region in north east South Dakota, and west central Minnesota.
	www.sisseton.com /profile_of_sisseton.htm (6117 words)

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		piainiy indicated by the course of the Des Moines from 43° 30' of north latitude ; and the one now referred to is a prominent ridge, separating the waters that empty into the Des Moines from those that flow westwardly into the Missouri.
		To the north and west of Nadoway, or Snake river—meaning a particu- lar species of snake—several important streams take their rise on that side of the Coteau des Prairies I am now considering, to empty themselves, of course, finally, into the Missouri.
		gources are at the head of the Coteau des Prairies, not more than à mile from those of the St. Peter's, and separated only by a low ridge, * Iayan-yanke river is said to be navigable for canoes.
	memory.loc.gov /master/gc/gcmisc/gcfr/0100/00290027.txt (591 words)

	The Jeffers Petroglyphs Historic Site
		Among the birds were prairie chickens, spotted sandpiper, grasshopper sparrows, burrowing owls and bald eagles.
		With the prairie's grasses and forbs came buffaloes and people thrived; both their populations grew.
		Burning can improve prairies because unlike trees, the near ground growth structures of prairie plants are not affected by fire.
	www.thudscave.com /petroglyphs/history.htm (1596 words)

	South Dakota: Fort Sisseton (Local Legacies: Celebrating Community Roots - Library of Congress)
		Also known as the Dakota Conflict, the uprising involved Mdewakanton and Wahpekute bands of the Santee Sioux living in the Minnesota River valley, who were provoked by a number of injustices: unfair trading practices, unkept treaty promises, and encroachment on their lands by homesteading settlers.
		The bands of Sisseton and Wapheton Santee Sioux, also living in the valley, were equally concerned about the injustices, but told their warriors not to become involved in any conflicts, fearing that impending military force would not be able to differentiate between warring and friendly Sioux.
		A Fort Wadsworth, a post to further strengthen and protect the Dakota Territory was built in 1864 at the head of the Coteau de Prairies, on the south side of Kettle Lakes, in northeastern South Dakota.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /cocoon/legacies/SD/200003527.html (493 words)

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