| Abstract: | The Glasgow quadrangle encompasses approximately 16,084 km2 (6,210 mi2). The northern boundary is the Montana/Saskatchewan (U.S./Canada) boundary. The quadrangle is in the Northern Plains physiographic province and it includes the Boundary Plateau, Peerless Plateau, and Larb Hills. The primary river is the Milk River.
The map units are surficial deposits and materials, not landforms. Deposits that comprise some constructional landforms (for example, ground-moraine deposits, end-moraine deposits, and stagnation-moraine deposits, all composed of till) are distinguished for purposes of reconstruction of glacial history. Surficial deposits and materials are assigned to 23 map units on the basis of genesis, age, lithology or composition, texture or particle size, and other physical, chemical, and engineering characteristics. It is not a map of soils that are recognized in pedology or agronomy. Rather, it is a generalized map of soils recognized in engineering geology, or of substrata or parent materials in which pedologic or agronomic soils are formed. Glaciotectonic (ice-thrust) structures and deposits are mapped separately, represented by a symbol. The surficial deposits are glacial, ice-contact, glaciofluvial, alluvial, lacustrine, eolian, colluvial, and mass-movement deposits. Residuum, a surficial material, also is mapped.
Till of late Wisconsin age is represented by three map units. Till of Illinoian age is also represented locally but is widespread in the subsurface.
This map was prepared to serve as a database for compilation of a Quaternary geologic map of the United States and Canada (scale 1:1,000,000). Letter symbols for the map units are those used for the same units in the Quaternary Geologic Atlas of the United States map series. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 70041849 |
| Citation Author: | Fullerton, David S.; Colton, Roger B.; Bush, Charles A. |
| Citation Contributing Office: | Geosciences and Environmental Change Science Center |
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| Citation Language: | English |
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| Citation LatN: | 49.0 |
| Citation LatS: | 48.0 |
| Citation LonE: | -106.0 |
| Citation LonW: | -108.0 |
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| Citation Online Only Flag: | Y |
| Citation Phsyical Description: | Map: 52 x 36 inches; Downloads Directory |
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| Citation Public Comments: | Prepared in cooperation with the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology |
| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Citation Series: | Open-File Report |
| Citation Series Code: | OFR |
| Citation Series Number: | 2012-1217 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Quaternary geologic map of the Glasgow 1° x 2° quadrangle, Montana; 2012; OFR; 2012-1217; Fullerton, David S.; Colton, Roger B.; Bush, Charles A. |
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| Citation Year: | 2012 |
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| Text: | Quaternary geologic map of the Glasgow 1° x 2° quadrangle, Montana; 2012; OFR; 2012-1217; Fullerton, David S.; Colton, Roger B.; Bush, Charles A. |
| URL (COMPANION FILES): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1217/downloads/ |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/thumbnails/ofr_2012_1217.gif |
| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1217/OF12_1217_508.pdf |
| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2012/1217/ |
| Date Other: | Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey |
