Editing Berne, Indiana (section)

=== Teays River ===
An ancient pre-glacial river known as the [[Teays River]] (about the size of the [[Ohio River]]), with its headwaters near present-day [[Blowing Rock, North Carolina]], used to pass through [[Virginia]], [[West Virginia]] and [[Ohio]] and run just east of Berne before flowing southwest through the present town of [[Geneva, Indiana|Geneva]] into [[Jay County, Indiana|Jay County]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Aquifer Systems of Adams County, Indiana |url=https://www.indianachamber.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Adams.pdf |access-date=May 14, 2022 |website=Indiana Chamber of Commerce |page=4}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |title=Aquifer Systems of Jay County, Indiana |url=https://www.indianachamber.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Jay.pdf |access-date=May 14, 2022 |website=Indiana Chamber of Commerce |page=4}}</ref> It then continued its course across Indiana into Illinois, draining most of the east-central United States. The glaciers of the last Ice Age (the [[Pleistocene]]) bisected the Teays River Valley and buried it underneath at least 400 feet of glacial drift (the largest remaining piece is the [[Kanawha River]] of West Virginia).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hydrogeology of the Lafayette (Teays) Bedrock Valley System |url=https://www.in.gov/dnr/water/files/Teays.pdf |access-date=May 14, 2022 |website=Indiana Department of Natural Resources |page=6}}</ref> Although the river does not flow anymore, the underground Teays River Valley still contains significant water deposits, making Berne and Geneva very water-rich areas. Wells just to the east of Berne provide the much larger [[Decatur, Indiana|city of Decatur]] (c.10 miles north) with a large proportion of its water supply.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Water Department {{!}} City of Decatur, Indiana |url=https://www.decaturin.org/services/Water-Department/16 |access-date=2022-05-15 |website=www.decaturin.org}}</ref> The current locations of many wetland areas, such as [[Limberlost Swamp]] Nature Preserve, Loblolly Marsh Nature Preserve, Limberlost Park and Rainbow Bend Park lie over the old Teays River Valley.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />