Mysterious Mima Mounds

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March 22, 2017

 

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The mounds themselves are six to eight feet high and about thirty feet across [Nelson 1994], and though similar masses appear elsewhere—Wyoming, Arkansas, Mexico, Argentina, Kenya—the mounds on the Mima Prairie are the largest known to exist [Geiger 1998]. One of the first answers to the question of the mounds’ origins was glacial process...
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It was proposed that the mounds remained after softer sediments were wiped out by the retreating Cordillera Ice Sheet, which would make the mounds some 13,000 years in age [Geiger 1998]. Another theory proposes that the mounds are the result of soil-mounding activity by gophers. This would occur over a long period of time as gophers dig series of burrows, thus loosening soil and pushing it up to the surface...
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