The Wisconsin Archeologist, Vol. 17

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Excerpt from The Wisconsin Archeologist, Vol. 17: December, 1918Juneau County, in central Wisconsin, is a center in several aspects. Near the geographical center of the state it is also in the broad central valley of the Wisconsin and in that weird portion of the Driftless. Area where the castellated sandstone buttes stand like huge watch towers scattered over the ¿at sand plain. Its. Geologic features furnish very cogent explanation for its unusual richness in archaeological remains.Its area is within the 'broad belt of Potsdam sandstone that encircles the nucleus of crystalline rock that forms the Arch aean highlands of north Wisconsin. On the west and southwest the high plateau, the cut and jagged remnant of the old pene plain thrusts long fingers and dendritic cut tablelands out to ward the river valley while in the fresh peneplain that covers the north and east portions of the county the branches of the Wisconsin and their tributaries are cutting a new dendritic pattern in the level terrace.The erosion of hundreds, if not thousands, of feet of over lying rock beds has left some very significant traces on the present surface and had much to do with making the Indian paradise. The level sand terrace that fills the wide valley of the Wisconsin from the fringing overwash apron of the Kettle Moraine on the east to the jagged border of the old peneplain on the west marks the epoch of erosion when the Old channel of the Wisconsin was. Dammed by the drift invasion of the lat est glacial epoch.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.