LANDFORM RECORD ANNOTATIONS

 

PASSWORD:

Enter password to modify a record.

 

IMAGE URL:

Please enter the complete URL for the landform image.

 

RIVER STRETCH:

Please click on the appropriate radio button.

  1. Upper Mississippi River Valley.
  2. Mississippi-Illinois-Missouri Confluence.
  3. Middle Illinois River Valley.

 

IMAGE LOCATION:

If appropriate, please provide the name of the nearest town and state to this landform.

 

LANDFORM TYPE:

Please indicate the type of landform for which information is to be displayed.

  1. Natural Levee.
  2. Abandoned Terrace.
  3. Old River Channel Feature.
  4. Lake.
  5. Alluvial/Colluvial Fan.

 

LANDFORM DESCRIPTION & GENESIS:

Please provide a simple statement about the landform that includes the following:

  1. How the lanform was created.
  2. Typical sediment size of landform.

 

AGE of LANDFORM:

Please check the appropriate radio button(s):

  1. Recent.
  2. Holocene.
  3. Pleistocene.
  4. Late Holocene.
  5. Middle Holocene.
  6. Early Holocene.
  7. Late Pleistocene.
  8. Pleistocene.
  9. Unknown.

 

TYPICAL ECOSYSTEM LOCATION:

From the pull-down menus please select the ecosystems where this landform is typically found. You may check up to 3 ecosystems.

  1. Forest.
  2. Prairie.
  3. Wetlands.
  4. Agricultural.
  5. Urban.
  6. River Channel.
  7. River Near Shore.
  8. Lake.

 

LANDFORM ROLE & INFLUENCE in RIVER SYSTEM:

Please provide a simple statement about the landform’s major role and influence on the river-system. For example, you may want to include information on one or more of the following:

  1. Landorm role in present river hydrology & seasonal flooding.
  2. Landform role in sediment flow.
    1. Does the landform promote or retard sediment erosion?
    2. Is the landform accumulating sediment brought by floods?
    3. Is the landform accumulating sediment directly from a nearby ecosystem or the uplands?
  1. Landform role in creation of plant & animal habitats.

 

HISTORICAL NOTES (modifications; plants & animals present in past.; anecdotes; quotes; images)

You may want include relevant photographs, quotes, comments about the lanform. Some examples might include:

  1. Human modifications of landform.
  1. Land clearing (dates; amount of natural ecosystems lost; photographs; quotes)
  2. Draining land.
  3. Construction of flood control features (dates; photographs; etc.)
  4. Construction of navigation features, i.e., locks & dams (dates; photographs; etc.)
  5. Urban growth & pollution.

(2) Pre-modification use of landform.

 

DISTRIBUTION MAP URL:

Please provide a URL for the distribution map.