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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Mandan"”.
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Hydrogeology of a sanitary landfill, Mandan, North Dakota
… and climatic conditions are similar. </p><p> The Mandan landfill is on the Heart River floodplain and next to the river on the north and steep valley wall on the south. The sanitary landfill bas been used for over 20 years. </p><p> The only pre-Pleistocene unit exposed is the Cannonball Formation, …
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Applied geology of the Bismarck-Mandan area, North Dakota
<p>The Bismarck-Mandan area includes about 350 square miles located along both sides of' the Missouri River in south-central North Dakota. The area can be divided into two major physiographic divisions: the broad Missouri River floodplain and the nearly flat uplands which are dissected by minor …
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The Geology and Geohydrology of the Sunny Slide Area Mandan, North Dakota
… Morton County, 4.6 road miles west of Mandan, North Dakota. The area of study measures 1900 feet by 800 feet and includes U.S. Highway 10 and the Burlington Northern Railway ' s central line, both threatened by continuing slope failure. The present episode of local instability dates …
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Geohydrologic evaluation of a proposed coal-ash disposal site near Mandan, North Dakota
… megawatt coal-fired power plant, located near Mandan, North Dakota. In the process of generating electricity, MDU's Heskett Station produces approximately 62,000 tons of coal-ash annually. The ash has been disposed of by above-ground stockpiling on the plant site for the past 35 years. Limited …
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The use of geomorphological and pedological soil characteristics to assess planar borrowing at a Mandan Indian village, North Dakota
… The site was occupied from ca AD 1450 to 1785 by Mandan Indians, Plains Villagers who exhibited a systematic and deliberate pattern of earth-moving behavior unique to the region. A soil-coring program was conducted with: transects both within the village and in an adjacent area of similar, …
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Seeing Prehistory through New Lenses: Using Geophysical and Statistical Analysis to Identify Fresh Perspectives of a 15th Century Mandan Occupation
… a near-complete picture of this 15th century Mandan expression, allowing new questions to be raised about its previous taxonomic placement. Using a combination of GIS and statistical analysis, an attempt is made to quantitatively examine if it truly represented the Terminal Middle Missouri …
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HUSHGAH ADIISH THE BADLANDS LODGE: A HIDATSA CULTURAL HUB ON THE UPPER-MISSOURI RIVER IN THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
… driving the Crow-Flies-High Band of Hidatsa and Mandan Indians 120 miles west to confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers. They were the survivors of smallpox and the witnesses of land loss. In a single season, in the winter of 1837 and spring of 1838, their lives forever changed when …
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Evaluation Of Selected Spectral Vegetation Indices In Senescent Rangeland Canopy Using Landsat Imagery
… Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory in Mandan, ND, recently established statistical relationships between photosynthetic vegetation (PV), NPV and spectral vegetation indices (SVIs) derived from more sensitive and more detailed, but less accessible and more costly hyperspectral aerial …
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The "Free Road": Indigenous Travel and Rights of Passage on the Missouri River
… the collapse of New Cahokia, Arikara and Mandan settlers pressed up the river valley and established expansive transportation and communication networks that stretched across the Missouri watershed. By 1650 their villages were influential centers of Native North America and places where …
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Narrative Theory and Fort Berthold's Stories of the Paranormal or Supernatural
… The research participants were members of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes. Five research questions guided the study: (1) Where did these contemporary stories of the paranormal or supernatural originate? (2) What is the meaning behind these stories? (3) How are these stories different …
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Flooded Lifeways: A Study of the Garrison Dam and its Environmental Impact upon the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation
… navigation, irrigation, and hydropower. The Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara nations, the Three Affiliated Tribes, maintained a reservation and way of life on Fort Berthold which lay in the direct path of the water that would form the reservoir behind one of the dams, the Garrison Dam.</p><p>It …
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Stratigraphy of the upper part of the Fort Union Group in southwestern McLean County, North Dakota
… Sentinel Butte Formations is exposed in the Fort Mandan Badlands. Lithologically, the upper part of the Tongue River Formation and the lower part of the Sentinel Butte Formation are similar. Sediment of the Tongue River Formation consists predominantly of light yellow-buff sandstone, with some …
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A survey of 24 elements in North Dakota lignite (Fort Union Group, Paleocene) and possible geologic implications
… Formation (carbonaceous shale) south of Mandan, North Dakota and from an outcrop of the brackish oyster lignite and oyster bed (lignitic shale) of the Slope Formation north of Marmarth, North Dakota.</p><p>The samples were analyzed for 24 major, minor, and trace elements using an …
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Stratigraphy and history of the Sakakawea Sequence, south-central North Dakota
… It lasted for about 10 years, after which the Mandan Episode began.</p>
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Milicia y política en la revolución liberal española: el general Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros y Ayerdi (1775-1847)
… Narváez, ahora en el poder, se vengan de él y le mandan ya con casi 70 años ¿¡a la isla de Cuba de cuartel! Es su final, no solo como militar. De viaje hacia Cádiz para embarcar hacia Cuba, escribe a las autoridades militares logrando evitar su nefasto destino, pidiendo lo que prácticamente debió …