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  Ohio River - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The river is formed by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers in downtown Pittsburgh.
The Ohio River was formed by glacial meltwater from the last stage of this ice age, the Wisconsin glaciation.
Wherever the river serves as a boundary between states -- Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio on the north, and Kentucky and West Virginia on the south, the river essentially belongs to the two states on the south that were divided from Virginia.
www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/Ohio_River   (937 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Ohio River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Scioto River (rhymes with iota) is a river of central and southern Ohio.
The Green River is a tributary of the Ohio River that rises in Lincoln County in south-central Kentucky.
Wherever the river serves as a boundary between states—Illinois, Indiana and Ohio on the north, and Kentucky and West Virginia on the south, the river essentially belongs to the two states on the south that were divided from Virginia.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ohio-River   (4250 words)

  
 Teays River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Teays River was an important pre-glacial river that drained much of the area now drained by the Ohio River, and more.
It was largely coincident with the New River and Kanawha River in West Virginia, and flowed for a short distance with the Ohio River before turning north and west in Ohio, and included part of the course of the Scioto River as well.
A look at topographic maps, vegetational maps, or shaded relief maps of Ohio clearly show the old course of the river, before it was captured, as it turned north from the present course of the Ohio River, thence west to join with the current Scioto River valley.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Teays_River   (220 words)

  
 New River Gorge NR - Geology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The motion of the river that is most important to our geologic story is the motion that results in erosion, the rivers ability to cut into its channel and carry away sediment.
Most of the river's energy is spent overcoming friction in passing over the river channel and its obstacles and is converted into heat.
This caused the Teays to seek a new course skirting the edge of the glacier.
www.nps.gov /neri/geology.htm   (1137 words)

  
 GEO_PLATE_F-26.HTML   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The preglacial Teays drained northwestward from the Blue Ridge of Virginia across West Virginia and Ohio.
The portion of the Teays Valley extending east-west from Huntington is filled with Late Tertiary alluvium and Early Pleistocene lacustrine clay.
The uppermost sediments of the Teays paleovalley consist of loess, emplaced by eolian activity during the cold/dry phases of the Pleistocene.
daac.gsfc.nasa.gov /geomorphology/GEO_4/GEO_PLATE_F-26.HTML   (493 words)

  
 Some Natural History of the Scioto
Before the modern Ohio River existed, the Scioto watershed area was drained by the Teays River which rose in North Carolina and flowed north-west through central Ohio.
The New River of Virginia and West Virginia still flows northward through the gorge of the Teays, beyond the farthest reach of the glaciers.
So the flow of the Teays was "stolen" by the Ohio River, including the Teays north of the Ohio, and the Scioto River began to run southward through the same valley that the Teays occupied flowing northward.
www.geocities.com /fosrfc/natural.html   (521 words)

  
 Wellhead Protection Proposal
It flows under the Mad River Basin at a rapid rate as it is an artery of water that is hundreds of years old.
The River Teays was covered by an earth shift caused by a glacier that passed through and runs close under the sub-surface of Campbell Hill.
Mad River is possibly one of the last natural cold water habitats in the universe.
www.geocities.com /djbooth99/wellhead.html   (474 words)

  
 Mississippi Embayment
The remnants of the Teays River is preserved as flat-bottom valleys in hills south of the glacial limit.
Prior to the Pleistocene glaciation, the Teays River and Missouri River were the largest tributaries to the Mississippi River.
Course of the Teays River prior to the maximum glaciation during the Pleistocene.
www.emporia.edu /earthsci/student/salley3   (1187 words)

  
 Clinton, IL- Weldon Springs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Known as the Teays River, it was born in the Paleozoic Age when the land began to rise and drain the inland sea that once covered most of central North America.
The biggest river of interior America, the Teays was fed by the ancient Mississippi, Iowa and Missouri rivers.
The Teays stopped flowing as a surface stream, but groundwater, resting on an impervious layer of bedrock, flows easily through the till deposits under the influence of gravity, seeping out of the sand and gravel to form the springs.
www.clintonillinois.com /tourism/weldon.html   (1799 words)

  
 GeoFacts No. 10, The Teays River
The Teays River was an ancient stream, comparable in size to the modern Ohio River, that once drained much of the east-central U.S., including nearly two-thirds of Ohio.
Remnants of the valley of the Teays River are preserved as flat-bottomed valleys in hilly, unglaciated southern Ohio and as deep valleys now filled with sediment in the glaciated portion of the state.
The entire extent of the Teays and its tributaries north of the glacial border is buried beneath thick glacial drift.
www.ohiodnr.com /geosurvey/geo_fact/geo_f10.htm   (1023 words)

  
 Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition
The river's origin was in the original Appalachian Mountains which it substantially wore down to the Appalachian Peneplain.
When the peneplain was uplifted into the plateau, the river was carried upward on the surface of the rising land.
Rejuvenated, the Teays carved a deep gorge now known as the New River Gorge which today is spanned by a unique bridge favored by bungee jumpers and parachutists and is the site of the popular Bridge Day in October.
www.ohvec.org /old_site/streams05.htm   (523 words)

  
 ISGS Field Trip to Buffalo Rock & Matthiessen
The principal areas of its exposure in Illinois are in the Dixon-Oregon area and the Ottawa-La Salle area, where the rocks of Middle Ordovician age are folded and brought to the bedrock surface along the flanks of the Oregon Anticlinorium, the Ashton Arch, and the La Salle Anticlinorium.
Closer to the Vermilion River, where the Platteville Limestone overlying the St. Peter Sandstone is visible, the rocks are folded, and the strata dip steeply toward the river along the west flank of the La Salle Anticlinorium.
As the Illinois River was deepening and cutting cascades through the St. Peter Sandstone, the Vermilion River was deepening and cutting through the overlying Pennsylvanian strata and the Platteville Group.
www.isgs.uiuc.edu /tours/buffalo/buffalo.htm   (4926 words)

  
 Shawnee State Forest
Rivers are vital conduits for plant migration and these streams play a major role.
The ancient Teays River originated in what is now North Carolina and flowed northwest, entering Ohio in Scioto County.
Many Appalachian plants may have migrated north along the Teays and established populations well to the north of their current distributional centers, some of which persist today.
www.jayeye.com /archives/vol02/page7.html   (1169 words)

  
 THE NEW RIVER FRONTIER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Analysis Of the eighteenth-century frontier in the New River Valley, on the western Virginia-North Carolina border, illustrates significant factors of the settlement pattern in the antebellum Piedmont and Appalachian South.
The industry and self-sufficiency of this group is especially evident in the New River settlement, which was geographically remote from the East, at the southern end of the Valley of Virginia, on the western side of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Actually one of the old rivers in the world, it is a remnant of the great prehistoric Teays River which traversed almost half the continent before it was drastically altered by the last ice age; only that portion known as the New River remained in almost its original state.
www.absolombrown.com /new_river_frontier.htm   (14573 words)

  
 Adventures in West Virginia
The New was born as part of an ancient river system known today as the "Teays." Five hundred million years ago, in what geologists call the Paleozoic Era, Africa and North America collided.
The Teays River, with headwaters near present-day Blowing Rock, North Carolina, drained the northern and western slopes of these new mountains.
That the river predates the surrounding mountains is evidenced by the fact that it flows diagonally across the mountains and through them...rather than around them.
www.aceraft.com /mediapg/medapg09.html   (554 words)

  
 The Teays River Valley, near Geneva Indiana
The Teays River was one to two miles wide and over 500 feet deep before the Wisconsin Glacier moved through the area.
The watershed map [which remains unscannable so far, for this website] shows the relationship of the Teays River (outlined in red) and the pre-drainage Limberlost Swamp (light blue.) It is here in the Limberlost that the Teays River made a turn from a southwest flow to a nearly straight west flow.
The Teays River and the glacier helped to create this depression, but much of the work we have done in the past 20 years to improve drainage has helped to increase the flooding problems and degrade the water quality.
www.tentativetimes.net /porter/geology.html   (790 words)

  
 Surface Hydrology
The New River is believed to be the oldest river on the continent and the second oldest in the world (The Nile is considered the oldest on the planet.).
The New River was once part of the Teays River system which emptied into the Atlantic via the channel currently occupied by the St. Lawrence River.
Water was forced to flow along the edge of the ice age and the Ohio River formed, draining waters of the New River to the Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico.
www.runet.edu /~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG202/hydrol/hydrol.html   (1070 words)

  
 On New River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The clouds that had been hovering over the river all afternoon began to release their moisture in a gradual crescendo without interrupting the tranquil rhythm of the thunder.
Apparently, what we call the New River is actually what remains of a larger prehistoric river, the Teays River, which originated over 100 million years ago in the Appalachian Mountains.
The lead mines which hide in the river valleys at Austinville are a reminder of the trials of the mining industry in Appalachia's past.
athena.english.vt.edu /~nquesinb/Nq/onnewriv.htm   (4050 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Prior to any glacial advance, the area was drained by the Teays River (Teays Age Licking River) and its tributaries, flowing north around the present Cincinnati, forming a large bend (Durrell 1977).
The Kansan ice sheet dammed the Teays and deposits of lake clay filled the valley in southern Ohio and northern Kentucky.
When the glacier lobes melted, huge braided rivers occupied the majority of the region, carrying large volumes of water and coarse to medium coarse sediment, such as will be described from Site 2, Watson Gravel Quarry.
tvl1.geo.uc.edu /ice/projects/lab96/Final96/Annette/geolset.html   (554 words)

  
 Geology and Geomorphology of Erie-Huron Lake Plain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This lowland valley of an east-flowing river was known as the Erigan River.
Some geologists surmise that this river was the downstream portion of the preglacial Teays River system.
As the ice receded northward, Glacial Lake Maumee extended its surface area, but as a new and lower drainage outlet was developed the lake level dropped form 800 to 760 feet ASL (marking the extent of Glacial Lake Maumee substage 2).
www2.wcoil.com /~rfrobb/morphlp.html   (1006 words)

  
 Ohio River Valley Ecosystem Team
The New and Kanawha Rivers are the mainstem headwaters of the ancient Teays River, second only to the Nile River as the oldest existing river system on earth.
Because of the relatively undisturbed nature of the river, characterized by good water quality, clean swept sand, gravel and cobble substrate, and high fish diversity, the river supports up to 38 species of freshwater mussels including two federally listed species, the endangered pink mucket pearlymussel, Lampsilis abrupta and the endangered fanshell, Cyprogenia stegaria.
This reach of the Kanawha River supports one of the largest and most stable reproducing populations of the pink mucket pearlymussel in the Ohio River Valley Ecosystem.
www.fws.gov /orve/kanawha.html   (282 words)

  
 Preglacial Drainage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Glacial processes altered these rivers' previous courses, but did not carve out entirely new paths, for the trunks of major rivers remain similar between present and pre-glacial times.
For example, the headwaters, or beginning, of the ancient Teays River were in North Carolina and the river can be traced to central Ohio.
Glaciation dammed and filled the trunk valley, forcing rivers to overflow and establish new patterns, which are the rivers that we see today.
viking.eps.pitt.edu /public/climate/preglacialdrainage.html   (294 words)

  
 DNR
This river, known as the Teays River, was born in the Paleozoic Age when the land began to rise and drain the inland sea which once covered most of central North America.
This predecessor of the Ohio River reached a width of fifteen miles in DeWitt County.
The biggest river of interior America, the Teays was fed by the Ancient Mississippi River, the Ancient Iowa River, and the ancient Missouri River.
dnr.state.il.us /lands/landmgt/PARKS/R3/WELDONRA.HTM   (2903 words)

  
 Indiana Karst Geology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Rivers became deeply entrenched, creating enough hydostratic head to encourage karst formation in these areas.
A significant karst area also developed in the Devonian/ Silurian limestones of north- central and eastern Indiana, controlled by deeply- incised Teays River and its major tributaries.
The Teays drained the western Appalachians, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois before joining the Mississippi via the Illinois River.
www.caves.org /conservancy/ikc/slideshow/slide_4.htm   (198 words)

  
 What's New?
The search for the New River’s name begins with early explorers who happened upon the New River and presumed that they had found the river that would lead them west to the other side of the New World.
Geologists, in the very early days, associated the New River with the prehistoric river Teays because it was the only remaining tributary.
Other theories imply that the New River was named after a ranger named Francis New, or an early ferryman, or even by North Carolina’s governor in 1750.
www.radford.edu /~engl-web/river/whatsnew.htm   (525 words)

  
 Pleistocene Glaciers and Geography
A great buried river valley, called the Teays River, probably was the principal east-west drainage in the Midwest before then.
The large river flowing northwest across Virginia and West Virginia is the ironically-named New River.
The probable early course of the Hudson River is probably marked by a number of deep notches in ridges near New York City.
www.uwgb.edu /dutchs/EarthSC202Notes/GLACgeog.HTM   (1000 words)

  
 Champaign County Ground-Water Resources, AEX-490.11-97
Teays River drainage is underlain by shale bedrock at a depth of up to 500 feet below the land surface.
This area is capable of producing yields in excess of 1000 gpm from properly constructed, large diameter wells developed in the sand and gravel deposits at depths of 60 to 95 feet.
Genrealized cross section of the Mad River basin in Champaign County, Ohio (adapted from Underground Water Resources map H-3, ODNR Division of Water; illustration prepared by Kim Wintringham).
ohioline.osu.edu /aex-fact/0490_11.html   (2825 words)

  
 the Teays River, the Ohio River and Mid North America before and after the last ice age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Teays (taze) River in West Virginia follows the old channel until it intersects with the Ohio River.
The ancient river is referred to as the Teays River.
The ancient Teays River disappeared on the surface, in part because of the moraines left by the retreating glaciers, but underground the there is still a flow along the ancient river bed.
www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/iceage.htm   (320 words)

  
 The Teays River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Traces of an old east-west drainage system, buried by glacial deposits not shown on the map, are conspicuous across northern Ohio and Indiana.
Presence of the pre-Pleistocene Teays River is revealed as a sinuous, branching pattern of Ordovician rocks (pink) surrounded by overlying Silurian strata (violet).
The old river channel was abandoned when its course was diverted southward to the Ohio River drainage by the movements of early Pleistocene ice and the emplacement of glacial deposits, probably about 2 million years ago.
tapestry.usgs.gov /features/41teaysriver.html   (91 words)

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