However, the grammatical problems arising from that name were soon apparent. Those people fascinated by unusual place names seem to be very happy with Anamoose. Areas of ice-thrust topography are found in many places on the plains of North Dakota and throughout the prairie provinces of southern Canada. Extent of the Prophets Mountains in western Sheridan County, a few miles northwest of McClusky. The Prophets Mountains occur over a large aquifer which is contained within the valley of an ancient river.
Aquifers are rock or sediment layers that contain water.
When the glacier advanced over such an aquifer, its weight sometimes caused elevated pore-water pressures to build up in the beds of sediment overlying the aquifer. The situation is kind of analogous to the action of a hydraulic jack. Air view of the Prophets Mountains. These ice-thrust hills consist of slabs of material that were pushed up by the ice from east to west. The snow marks troughs between ice-thrust ridges.