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The Wisconsin River is a tributary of the Mississippi River in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. At approximately 430 miles (692 km) long, it is the state's longest river. The river's name was first recorded in 1673 by Jacques Marquette as "Meskousing" from his Indian guides - most likely Miami for "river running through a red place."
- Gaps in The Ice Age
- Reverse-Engineering An Ancient River
- Not The Same River Twice
Even though geologists understand a great deal about the most recent glacial advance that covered about half of Wisconsin some 24,000 years go, we have much to learn about the series of massive glaciations that happened here and across North America over the last 2.5 million years. The Wisconsin River has been deeply affected by all of this glacial...
As a geologist, I specialize in studying the processes and histories of rivers; more specifically, I study rivers that flow near the former margins of ancient glaciers. The idea that glacial activity may have caused the ancient Wisconsin River to flow to the east grew from many discussions I had with my former doctoral advisor, James C. Knox, befor...
Given our findings, my colleagues and I have developed a pictureof a vast ancient river system that drained almost all of what is now Wisconsin and Minnesota. We have named it the ancestral Wyalusing River. The course of the Wyalusing River was certainly controlled by the local bedrock. Erosion-resistant layers of dolomite bedrock form topographic ...
Oct 5, 2022 · But the name covering the area comes from the absence of glacial drift, which the group Driftless Wisconsin describes as the deposits of silt, gravel and rock that glaciers would have left behind had they passed through this part of southwestern Wisconsin.
For my senior honors thesis, I created a cultural and natural heritage map of the Lower Wisconsin State Riverway with my advisor, Bill Gartner. Once complete, this map will be available to community members of the riverway in print and online as downloadable pdfs.
Oct 16, 2012 · The answer to where does the Wisconsin River start – The Wisconsin River as photographed from the bridge on U.S. Highway 45 in Land O’ Lakes just west of its headwaters. Related: Hiking loops in the Porcupine Mountains State Wilderness Area.
Lower Wisconsin State Riverway. For thousands of years, long before European explorers and entrepreneurs entered the Lower Wisconsin region, native people recognized the importance of the Mississippi River and its tributaries as a water highway system.
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From its point of origin on the Wisconsin-Michigan border at Lac Vieux Desert, the river flows south, then west to its confluence with the Mississippi, a distance of 430 miles. The Wisconsin River drains 12,280 square miles (7,859,200 acres), or about one third of the state.
