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- Coteau_des_Prairies abstract "The Coteau des Prairies is a plateau approximately 200 miles in length and 100 miles in width (320 by 160 km), rising from the prairie flatlands in eastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa in the United States. The southeast portion of the Coteau comprises one of the distinct regions of Minnesota, known as Buffalo Ridge.The flatiron-shaped plateau was named by early French explorers from New France (Quebec), coteau meaning \"hill\" in French; the general term coteau has since been used in English to describe any upland dividing ridge.The plateau is composed of thick glacial deposits, the remnants of many repeated glaciations, reaching a composite thickness of approximately 900 feet (275 m). They are underlain by a small ridge of resistant Cretaceous shale. During the last (Pleistocene) Ice Age, two lobes of the Laurentide glacier, the James lobe on the west and the Des Moines lobe on the east, appear to have parted around the pre-existing plateau and further deepened the lowlands flanking the plateau.The plateau has numerous small glacial lakes and is drained by the Big Sioux River in South Dakota and the Cottonwood River in Minnesota. Pipestone deposits on the plateau have been quarried for hundreds of years by Native Americans, who use the prized, brownish-red mineral to make their sacred ceremonial pipes. The quarries are located at Pipestone National Monument in the southwest corner of Minnesota and in adjacent Minnehaha County, South Dakota.Numerous wind farms have been built on the area to take advantage of the high average wind speeds.".
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- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Big_Sioux_River.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Buffalo_Ridge.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ecoregions_of_Minnesota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Great_Plains.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Iowa.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Minnesota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_South_Dakota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Plateaus_of_the_United_States.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Category:Regions_of_South_Dakota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Catlinite.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Ceremonial_pipe.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Coteau_du_Missouri.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Cottonwood_River_(Minnesota).
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Cretaceous.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Flatiron_(geomorphology).
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink French_language.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Geography_of_Minnesota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Glacier.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Ice_age.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Iowa.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Minnehaha_County,_South_Dakota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Minnesota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Native_Americans_in_the_United_States.
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- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Pipestone_National_Monument.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Plateau.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Pleistocene.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Prairie.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Quebec.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink Shale.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink South_Dakota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink University_of_South_Dakota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLink File:Coteau_des_prairies.jpg.
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- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLinkText "Coteau des Prairies".
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLinkText "Prairie Coteau".
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageWikiLinkText "coteau region of eastern South Dakota".
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- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Iowa.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Minnesota.
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- Coteau_des_Prairies wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:South_Dakota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies subject Category:Ecoregions_of_Minnesota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies subject Category:Great_Plains.
- Coteau_des_Prairies subject Category:Landforms_of_Iowa.
- Coteau_des_Prairies subject Category:Landforms_of_Minnesota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies subject Category:Landforms_of_South_Dakota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies subject Category:Plateaus_of_the_United_States.
- Coteau_des_Prairies subject Category:Regions_of_South_Dakota.
- Coteau_des_Prairies hypernym Plateau.
- Coteau_des_Prairies type Place.
- Coteau_des_Prairies type Landform.
- Coteau_des_Prairies type Redirect.
- Coteau_des_Prairies comment "The Coteau des Prairies is a plateau approximately 200 miles in length and 100 miles in width (320 by 160 km), rising from the prairie flatlands in eastern South Dakota, southwestern Minnesota, and northwestern Iowa in the United States.".
- Coteau_des_Prairies label "Coteau des Prairies".
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- Coteau_des_Prairies sameAs Meseta_de_las_Praderas.
- Coteau_des_Prairies sameAs Coteau_des_Prairies.
- Coteau_des_Prairies sameAs Coteau_des_Prairies.
- Coteau_des_Prairies sameAs m.02by7s.
- Coteau_des_Prairies sameAs Кото-де-Прери.
- Coteau_des_Prairies sameAs Q1136590.
- Coteau_des_Prairies wasDerivedFrom Coteau_des_Prairies?oldid=687627060.
- Coteau_des_Prairies depiction Coteau_des_prairies.jpg.
- Coteau_des_Prairies isPrimaryTopicOf Coteau_des_Prairies.