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39 Ozark Highlands 40 Central Irregular Plains 52 Driftless Area 39a Springfield Plateau 40a Loess Flats and Till Plains 52b Paleozoic Plateau/Coulee Section Level III boundary 39b Elk River Hills 40c Wooded Osage Plains Level IV boundary 39c White River Hills 40d Cherokee Plains 72 Interior River Valleys and Hills State boundary 39d Central Plateau 40e Claypan Prairie 72d Upper Mississippi Alluvial Plain County boundary 72e Middle Mississippi Alluvial Plain 39e Osage/Gasconade Hills 47 Western Corn Belt Plains 72f River Hills 39f St. Francois Knobs and Basins 47a Northwest Iowa Loess Prairies 39g Meramec River Hills 47b Des Moines Lobe 73 Mississippi Alluvial Plain SCALE 1:1 800 000 39h Current River Hills 47c Iowan Surface 73a Holocene Meander Belts 20 10 0 30 60 mi 39i Eastern Ozark Border 47d Missouri Alluvial Plain 73b Pleistocene Valley Trains 40 30 20 10 0 60 120 km 39j Black River Hills Border 47e Steeply Rolling Loess Prairies 39k Prairie Ozark Border 74 Mississippi Valley Loess Plains Albers equal area projection 47f Rolling Loess Prairies Standard parallels 37° N and 43° N 47m Western Loess Hills 74a Bluff Hills