Talk:Kansas River

message: This mis-captioned map of the Missouri River basin (in blue) was added to the page; can it be captioned in such a way as to be made specifically relevant to the Kansas River page? -- Malepheasant 02:37, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Corrected ... RJBurkhart 01:15, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Missouri River basin map

message: *USA National Atlas streamflow stations
*KELP: (Water quality community connections)
RJBurkhart 11:39, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: See also

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RJBurkhart 02:28, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What information are you trying to convey? That one end of the river is higher than the other? There may be a clearer way of doing so. Maybe something like a sentence that reads: "Its headwaters are at 1100' above sea level, while its junction with the Missouri is at 700'". Regarding the categories, every river contains water, so that category is nonsensical. :Category:Biogeography and :Category:Human geography are other categories which seem applicable to every river, and which are not appropriate. We need to keep these connections much tighter than some editors have done. -Will Beback 22:26, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Great alternative! Modified introduction as suggested.RJBurkhart 11:47, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re*Cycling [[Arkansas River]] and [[Kaw River]] [[Earth Science]] 

message: *Purging GPS survey topology waypoint creates a false flatlander perception.
** Fort Riley (Eco-History Trails and Tales)   
USGS TOPO! GPS Data Format Deg NAD83 ElevFeet   
JUNCTNCTY,39.02861,-96.83140,1107,JUNCTION CITY :: ELEV 1107 FT
:::What information are you trying to convey? That one end of the river is higher than the other? There may be a clearer way of doing so. Maybe something like a sentence that reads: "Its headwaters are at 1100' above sea level, while its junction with the Missouri is at 700'". Regarding the categories, every river contains water, so that category is nonsensical. :Category:Biogeography and :Category:Human geography are other categories which seem applicable to every river, and which are not appropriate. We need to keep these connections much tighter than some editors have done. -Will Beback 22:26, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Great alternative! Modified introduction as suggested.RJBurkhart 11:47, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: USGS [[National Map]] Geo-Tourism 

message: A few notes:
*I recently removed this unsightly and unexplained burst of text and numerals:
"USGS TOPO! GPS Data Format Deg NAD83 ElevFeet
JUNCTNCTY,39.02861,-96.83140,1107,JUNCTION CITY :: ELEV 1107 FT", and found it re-inserted a few hours later.  I don't think it should be there but don't want a revert war.
*It's not explained in the text of the article why this particular river should be in :Category:Biogeography and :Category:Human geography, but not every other river in the world.  (These were also been removed and reverted recently.)  Maybe some connection is made in the sea of external links that have been added to the article, but at the very least it should be laid out in sentences and paragraphs in the text of the Wikipedia article itself, if these categories are indeed appropriate placements for this article.
:: Since 1999, the Kansas Water Office (KWO) with Kansas Department of Health & Environment (KDHE) have "championed" community stewardship efforts to preserve & protect water quality via multiple river orienteering programs like Friend of the Kaw and bioneering interdisciplinary K-State Extension initiatives. RJBurkhart 23:09, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This'd be swell info to have in the article, just like this. -Will Beback 11:23, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done - Thanks for ongoing review & comment! -RJBurkhart 22:10, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jan. 2006 edits 

message: (This list follows Kansas River flow downstream)
*Shawnee - Elev: 732 ft
*Kaw Point - Elev: 727 ft
:This'd be swell info to have in the article, just like this. -Will Beback 11:23, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done - Thanks for ongoing review & comment! -RJBurkhart 22:10, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Kaw Valley [[drainage basin|watershed]] connections

message: (Recycling prior lessons learned as wisdom) 
*Talk:Kansas River/Biogeography
*Talk:Kansas River/Community toool box
*Talk:Kansas River/Dam safety monitoring
*Talk:Kansas River/Shawnee Crossings
*Talk:Kansas River/Virtual Team Tactics
RJBurkhart 10:31, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Kaw Valley [[social capital]] network

message: I've been updating this article and plan to do a lot more. This will be my first series of major updates (to any wiki article). Please tell me how you think its going! Sculptorjones 23:55, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New updates 

message: This article begins: "The Kansas River ... is the southernmost part of the Missouri River drainage.."  Which isn't quite true, as there is the more southernly Osage River, Gasconade River, Meramec River, and other rivers of Missouri. Pfly 17:16, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Geopedantry

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message: Within the Kansas River valley proper, there are no Western Interior Seaway formations. The Western Interior Seaway was a mid- to late-Cretaceous event, and all Kansas River valley formations are Carboniferous and Permian. Only the tributaries get into the Western Interior Seaway formations. The general Dakota Formation is the nearest Western Interior Seaway formation — the upper Big and Little Blues get into residual Dakota hills in the north border counties. Pebbles of Dakota can be found on hilltops around Tuttle Creek Lake (yes, the Dakota pebbles are OR, but you will never find any publication on that), but that is about as close as it gets. Clearly, the Smoky Hill River and Republican River do cut deeply into the undisturbed Western Interior Seaway formation in central and western Kansas. IveGoneAway (talk) 23:41, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Western Interior Seaway 

message: While the glaciation clearly had significant impact on the Kansas River, the impact is not really as stated, and the provided incomplete citation is unverifiable.
* The general west-to-east Smoky Hill-Kansas River course existed by mid-Neogene, but much shallower.
* Before glaciation, at least before the actually glacial damming events of the Kansas River, the Kansas River was already cut deeper than the present depth.  
* Most glaciation phases dammed only the Missouri River and the Platte River; overflows reached the Kansas River through tributaries, filling them with sediments and altering courses, cutting wide north-south valleys, which present tributaries now cut across west to east.
* The Big Blue River (Kansas) is thought to be initially the diversion of a pre-glacial Vermillion/Republican River course. 
* Glacial damming events of the Kansas River between Manhattan and Topeka formed Kaw Lake (Kansas) and filled the valleys with red loess -- the shoreline mud banks can still be traced on the bluffs between Manhattan and Junction City, meaning the bluffs didn't change much west of the Big Blue River during glaciation. And there is a spot of pre-glacial dune sand on top of the bluffs just east of Blue across from Randolf, IIRC. OTOH, spillover may have deepened the Wakarusa River, but I haven't citation on that, yet. 
If I get the chance, I will try to fix this with work on the glacial Kaw Lake (Kansas).
IveGoneAway (talk) 22:48, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better source needed - glaciation