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104° 103° 102° 101° 100° 99° 98° INTERIOR—G EOLOG ICAL S U RVEY, RES TON, VIRG INIA—1998 97°
17 Middle Rockies 43 Northwestern Great Plains 46 Northern Glaciated Plains 47 Western Corn Belt Plains 17a Black Hills Foothills 43a Missouri Plateau 46a Pembina Escarpment 47a Loess Prairies 17b Black Hills Plateau 43b Little Missouri Badlands 46b Turtle Mountains 47d Missouri Alluvial Plain 17c Black Hills Core Highlands 43c River Breaks 46c Glacial Lake Basins 48 Lake Agassiz Plain 25 Western High Plains 43d Forested Buttes 46d Glacial Lake Deltas 48a Glacial Lake Agassiz Basin 25a Pine Ridge Escarpment 43e Sagebrush Steppe 46e Tewaukon Dead Ice Moraine 48b Sand Deltas and Beach Ridges 43f Subhumid Pierre Shale Plains 46f End Moraine Complex 48c Saline Area 42 Northwestern Glaciated Plains 43g Semiarid Pierre Shale Plains 46g Northern Black Prairie 42a Missouri Coteau 43h White River Badlands 46h Northern Dark Brown Prairie Level III boundary County boundary 42b Collapsed Glacial Outwash 43i Keya Paha Tablelands 46i Drift Plains Level IV boundary State boundary 42c Missouri Coteau Slope 43j Moreau Prairie 46j Glacial Outwash International boundary 42d Northern Missouri Coteau 43k Dense Clay Prairie 46k Prairie Coteau SCALE 1:1 500 000 42e Southern Missouri Coteau 46l Prairie Coteau Escarpment 42f Southern Missouri Coteau Slope 44 Nebraska Sand Hills 15 10 5 0 30 60 mi 44a Nebraska Sand Hills 46m Big Sioux Basin 42g Ponca Plains 46n James River Lowland 30 20 10 0 60 120 km 42h Southern River Breaks 46o Minnesota River Prairie Albers equal area projection 42i Glaciated Dark Brown Prairie Standard parallels 44° N and 48° N