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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An eroded, unglaciated region of the northern Midwest including most of western Wisconsin and parts of Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota.
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The Driftless Area is a 24,000-square-mile area in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota that was missed by the last glacier to pass through the Midwest.
JSOnline.com 2010
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The Driftless Area is a 24,000-square-mile area in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois and Minnesota that was missed by the last glacier to pass through the Midwest.
JSOnline.com 2010
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Toussaint's laboratory, on a campus whose lush, green Driftless Area foothills are more Ivy League than Iowa, seems an unlikely location for an international hub of a burgeoning area of research.
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iowa Academic Blazes Trail in Study of Forgiveness 2009
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The hilly uplands of the Driftless Area (52) ecoregion easily distinguish it from surrounding ecoregions.
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The hilly uplands of the Driftless Area easily distinguish it from surrounding ecoregions.
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OpEdNews - Quicklink: Iowa Academic Blazes Trail in Study of Forgiveness 2009
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Elsewhere in the dissected Driftless Area, the landform mosaic comprises relatively broad, flat valley bottoms with steep sharper crested ridges or a pattern of nearly equal amounts of flatter areas in the valley bottoms and interfluves.
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The fertile prairie soils and gentle topography of this area contribute to more intensive agriculture than in the adjacent North Central Hardwood Forests (51) and Driftless Area (52) ecoregions.
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Land use patterns in the Driftless Area also follow spatial differences in slope; hence, 52a is predominantly agriculture on the uplands and some mixed woodland/agriculture in lowland areas.
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In contrast to the adjacent glaciated ecoregions, the Driftless Area has few lakes, most of which are reservoirs with generally high trophic states, and a stream density and flow that is generally greater than regions to the east.
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