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Table of Contents - Special Paper 490

Mima Mounds: The Case for Polygenesis and Bioturbation

Edited by Jennifer L. Horwath Burnham and Donald L. Johnson

Dedication		v
Introduction: Overview of concepts, definitions, and principles of soil mound studies Donald L. Johnson and Jennifer L. Horwath Burnham		1
1.	Using LIDAR to model Mima mound evolution and regional energy balances in the Great Central Valley, California Sarah Reed and Ronald Amundson	21
2.	“Pimple” mound microrelief in southern Saskatchewan, Canada L. Lee-Ann Irvine and Janis E. Dale	43
3.	Alpine and montane Mima mounds of the western United States George W. Cox	63
4.	The biodynamic significance of double stone layers in Mima mounds Jennifer L. Horwath Burnham, Donald L. Johnson, and Diana N. Johnson	71
5.	The forgotten natural prairie mounds of the Upper Midwest: Their abundance, distribution, origin, and archaeological implications Fred A. Finney	85
6.	The polygenetic origin of prairie mounds in northeastern California Donald L. Johnson and Diana N. Johnson	135
Foreword to Appendix A Donald L. Johnson, with assistance from Diana N. Johnson		161
Appendix A. The Late Wisconsin age of mounds on the Columbia Plateau of eastern Washington Roald H. Fryxell		164
Appendix B. Early prairie mound observations by two celebrated geologists: Joseph LeConte and Grove Karl Gilbert Donald L. Johnson		173
Appendix C. Literature-culled names for mounds and moundfields		179
Appendix D. Timeline of authors and theories offered to explain Mima mounds		185
Appendix E. References cited in Appendices C and D		190
Appendix F. Mima mound–related masters’ and doctoral theses, with a genetic and/or content précis of each		203