Souris River Capture
At some point in time, headward erosion by a stream running through the Tiger Hills reached a point where the Souris River was captured and sent northward to the Assiniboine River. The capture occurred at "the elbow" region, just east of highway 10. Previous to that event the Souris River continued in the Pembina Valley.
Archaeology
General
Southwest Manitoba
Below are some pdf files of research done on the area and southwest Manitoba in general.
Guidebook Mid-Western Friends of the Pleistocene May 17-18 1958 - MS-10.pdf
Surficial Geology of the Tiger Hills Region Manitoba John Elson.pdf
Brooks_A_Geomorphological.pdf "A Geomorphological Study of the Lower Souris River Valley, Manitoba, With Special Reference to the Diversion". This is a Master's Thesis by D. R. J. Brooks, 1968, University of Manitoba.Hodgeson_A_Slope_Profile.pdf Analysis of Souris River slope.
Photos
General photos of southwest Manitoba: spring and
summer 2016
Below are a few photos taken on 22 May 2016 showing some of the elbow region and the Souris/Pembina valley close-up. On this particular day a local thunderstorm had just passed nearby and to the North. One could hear both the storm's distant thunder and the Souris river running over the rocks of the river bed.
Lake Agassiz, etc
A few documents pertaining to Lake Agassiz and other glacial lakes that formed from melt water of the Laurentide Ice Sheet as it melted from about 20,000 on to 8,000 years ago.
ClarkeLeveringtonTellerDyke(QSR-2004).pdf
Reconstruction of Glacial Lake Hind of Southwestern Manitoba
Maps,
structure, and other docs