The Traverse Gap is the depressed spillway channel between Lake Traverse (top) and Big Stone Lake, cut through the Big Stone Moraine (NW to SE on this image).
Location
Browns Valley, Minnesota
Offshore water bodies
Lake Traverse, Big Stone Lake
The Traverse Gap is an ancient river channel occupied by Lake Traverse, Big Stone Lake and the valley connecting them at Browns Valley, Minnesota. It is located on the border of the U.S. states of Minnesota and South Dakota. Traverse Gap has an unusual distinction for a valley: it is crossed by a continental divide,[1] and in some floods, water has flowed across that divide from one drainage basin to the other. Before the Anglo-American Convention of 1818 it marked the border between British territory in the north and U.S. – or earlier, French – territory in the south.
^Thor K. Bergh, “Minnesota’s Sandy Soils”, ‘’The Conservation Volunteer’’, Minnesota Department of Conservation. September October 1944. Pp. 29-33.
The TraverseGap is an ancient river channel occupied by Lake Traverse, Big Stone Lake and the valley connecting them at Browns Valley, Minnesota. It is...
just above the dam. Lake Traverse Indian Reservation of the Santee Dakota lies on the west shore of the lake. The TraverseGap, a low continental divide...
Gulf of Mexico is in the TraverseGap between the U.S. states of Minnesota and South Dakota. It lies between Lake Traverse and Big Stone Lake. This continental...
130 ft (40 m) deep, which is now known as the TraverseGap. The channel through the moraine, between Lake Traverse and Big Stone Lake, is now crossed by the...
Minnesota–South Dakota border just south of the Laurentian Divide at the TraverseGap portage. It flows southeast to Mankato, then turns northeast. It joins...
Dakota before crossing the middle of Minnesota's western border at the TraverseGap. The divide then runs north and east through northern Minnesota, through...
are within the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area. Additional trails also traverse through the area. The gap is a popular place to rock-climb...
The Cumberland Gap is a pass in the eastern United States through the long ridge of the Cumberland Mountains, within the Appalachian Mountains and near...
then up the Red River of the North. The northern waterway begins at TraverseGap, on the other side of which is the source of the Minnesota River, which...
The chameleon's elongated tongue can be used as a weapon, a means to traversegaps, or as a way to leap onto platforms. Once the tongue is unrolled, it...
flows through the TraverseGap. Big Stone was formed at the end of the last ice age when glacial Lake Agassiz drained through the gap into Glacial River...
Grand Traverse Mall is an enclosed shopping mall serving Traverse City, Michigan, located in Garfield Township. Opened in 1992, the mall features five...
Minnesota–South Dakota border just south of the Laurentian Divide at the TraverseGap portage. It flows southeast to Mankato, then turns northeast. It joins...
continental divide at Browns Valley, Minnesota; drained through the TraverseGap and cut the present Minnesota River valley. The amount of discharge was...
The Gap of Dunloe (from Irish Dún Lóich, meaning 'Lóich's stronghold'), also recorded as Bearna an Choimín (meaning "gap of the commonage" or "gap of the...
mile (1.6 km) wide and 130 feet (~40 m) deep, which is now known as the TraverseGap. While active, Glacial River Warren cut and eroded a bed up to five miles...
flat plains between low uplands covered by prairie grasslands. At the TraverseGap, only a mile (1.6 km) of land separated the Bois des Sioux River, a...
Watford Gap /ˈwɒtfərd ɡæp/ is a low-lying area between two hills, close to the village of Watford, Northamptonshire, England. Engineers from Roman times...
in Virginia. The gap is traversed by U.S. Route 50. The Appalachian trail also passes across the gap. At 1,027 feet (313 m) the gap is 500 feet (150 m)...
found an outlet in glacial River Warren, which drained south across the TraverseGap through the valleys now occupied by the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers...
alone, the rings will be gone in ~292+818 −124 million years. While traversing the gap between the rings and planet in September 2017, the Cassini spacecraft...
the northern part of the state. Its southern outlet was through the TraverseGap, a spillway channel cut through the Big Stone Moraine by Glacial River...
partly because most of its difficulties (in particular the Eastern Traverse and the Tower Gap), lie high up on the route. A number of distinct features can...
historically transportation was by means of caravans that followed routes traversinggaps and passes in the mountains. The mountains also impeded easy access...
gap is traversed by Virginia State Route 7. The Appalachian Trail also passes across the gap. Bear's Den and Raven Rocks are adjacent to the gap. During...
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