Steven Dutch, Natural and Applied Sciences, University
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Secs. 3-5, T24N R2W, 3 miles northwest of Neillsville, Clark County.
The Neillsville Mounds rise conspicuously above a flat landscape and can be seen for a long distance. Unlike most of the mounds in central Wisconsin, these are surrounded by Pleistocene deposits. The hills owe their relief to cementing by quartz, creating very indurated rocks. Erratics have been found on the north slopes of the mounds but sandstone pinnacles on the summits suggest the tops were not overridden by ice. It has been widely proposed that the mounds were nunataks rising above the thin edge of the ice.
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Distant views from the southeast |
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Approaching from the south along Marg Road. |
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The views below show the mounds from the south. |
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View from the southeast |
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Left: saddle at the west en of the large mound. Below: views from the southwest on South Mound Road looking along the mounds. |
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View from the northwest |
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Cambrian outcrops along North Mound Road |
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