The Driftless Area’s unglaciated cliffs preserve fine-scale banded vegetation patterns.

Evidence

The Kickapoo River runs through southwestern Wisconsin in a region known as the Driftless Area. The glaciers which covered the upper Midwest skipped this one little corner of Wisconsin, leaving a landscape of steep cliffs and sandstone canyons. … All along the river I was struck by the distinctive pattern on the cliffs. The upper reaches of the cliff were spattered with lichens, but at the foot of the sheer wall were horizontal bands of moss in different shades of green, rising from the water. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 279

Categorization

• XREF: Disturbance history read from present landscape — an unglaciated pocket preserving distinct landform and community — is exactly the land-use-change interpretive method threaded through the polyad. — connects to: A real flood confirmed the lab-tested flood-tolerance and disturbance pattern — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural…, 304
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source