How a New Cenozoic Geology and Glacial History Paradigm Explains Anomalous Monongahela River Drainage Basin Topographic Map Evidence, PA, WV and MD, USA

A recently proposed and fundamentally different Cenozoic geology glacial history paradigm (new paradigm) is used to explain previously reported other anomalous Monongahela River drainage basin system evidence (observable on detailed topographic maps in the form of barbed tributaries, asymmetric tributary basins, large abandoned meander cutoffs, poorly explained transverse drainages drainages). The north-oriented according accepted (accepted originated during preglacial times was blocked by continental icesheets today’s Ohio River. Based Missouri map new predicts developed immense prolonged south- southwest-oriented icesheet melt water floods. also caused regional uplift created a deep “hole” which thick located forced south-oriented floods flow southwest directions along “hole’s” southeast rim (now River-Atlantic Ocean divide) until continued valley headward erosion from space being opened up melting reversed direction create system. This interpretation explains suggests while melted not time as has been commonly reported.