did the mississippi river ever flow backwards
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- There were temporary river waterfalls where the Mississippi ran backwards during 1811-12 earthquakes. It happened when a thrust fault created a sudden dam several feet high near the bottom of the river loop near New Madrid.
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- I saw an experiment in a small ramshackle museum in Ecuador on the equator. There was a sink on a stand. When it was placed a metre on one side of the equator the water circled clockwise as it drained, one metre on the other side the water drained anti-clockwise and when directly over the equator the water drained, straight down, with no rotation.
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Confluence Mississippi basin. 1  St. Louis, Missouri, is built just south of where the Missouri River flows into the Mississippi River. 2  The Madison, Jefferson and Gallatin Rivers in Three Forks, Montana form the confluence of the Missouri River. 3  At Keokuk, Iowa, the Des Moines River flows into the Mississippi.
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- The only problem is that only the South Branch (sort of) flows north. The main course, if anything, heads south. I grew up in Eugene, OR, at the headwaters of the Willamette, which really does flow north. But I don't recall any of my high school chums telling me about the Willamette and the Nile.
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Why does the Nile river flow from south to north? Rivers flow downhill to sea level (generally speaking; some end in other bodies of water or join another rver). They flow with gravity from a higher elevation to a lower. The Nile rises on the western flank of the Great Rift Valley (many people consider Lake Victoria to be the source) and the Blue Nile joins the White Nile at Khartoum. The land falls away towards the north, thus the river flows north until it reaches the Mediterranean Sea at the Nile Delta. Direction of flow of a river is determined by elevation of the drainage basin, not geographical (North, South etc.) direction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nile#Course.
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Why does the Nile flow north? Confidence votes 55. Like any other river, it flows downhill. Upper Egypt (south) has very high elevation and the Nile starts in Ethiopia which also has high elevation. The Nile flows down the river into Lower Egypt (north) and into the Mediterranean Sea.
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- The Mississippi flows 3770 km from its source at Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. While the Mississippi ranks as the second longest river in the United States after the Missouri River, it carries a greater volume of water than any other American river.
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Do all rivers flow in one direction ? No, they most certainly do not. They flow from their source, either to the sea, or as a tributary to another river, basically downhill. This can be, north, south, east or west in fact in any direction at all, depending entirely on the lie of the land. Let us look at this a different way. Rivers flow either into large lakes or out to sea.
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- 2.7k Views. Wash basins will sink in the opposite direction! This would be a stupider way to say that the wind systems, and therefore weather patterns, would reverse (though it must be noted that basin sinks is NOT a Coriolis phenomenon).
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Where does the Mississippi river begin? The Mississippi River is the main river that supports much of the American civilization. Geography With its source Lake Itasca at 1,475 feet (450 m) above sea level in Itasca State Park located in Clearwater County, Minnesota, the river falls to 725 feet (220 m) just below Saint Anthony Falls in Minneapolis.
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Mississippi River The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.[10][11] Flowing entirely in the United States (although its drainage basin reaches into Canada), it rises in northern Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for 2,320 miles (3,730 km)[11] to ...
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Why Does the Nile Flow North and More Questions From Our Readers It’s a common misconception that something about the earth forces most rivers to flow south. Plenty of rivers flow north, including the Nile, which gathers from high-elevation lakes in the African Rift Valley. Andrew Johnston geographer, Center for Earth and Planetary Study, National Air and Space Museum.
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- For much of the 200 years since Lewis and Clark ventured up the Missouri, strong men have shaken their heads in frustration and headed back down the river to eastern comforts. In 1925, though, 29-year-old Elmer Weaver ventured through the region, trailing a string of horses across north-central Montana.
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I-35W Mississippi River bridge The replacement of the collapsed I-35W Mississippi River bridge crosses the Mississippi River at the same location as the original bridge, and carries north–south traffic on I-35W. It was constructed on an accelerated schedule, because of the highway's function as a vital link for carrying commuters and truck freight.
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- By 1940, the locks and dams from Minneapolis down to Alton, Illinois, were in place and operational. The only challenge to navigation left on the upper Mississippi River was a series of rock ledges and shelves that extended for 17 miles on the north-east side of Saint Louis.
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Mississippi River The Mississippi is one of the greatest rivers in the world. Drainage of this river and its tributaries embraces nearly one-third of the land surface of the United States. It is more than 4,000 miles in length from the headwaters of the Missouri River tributary to its confluence with the Gulf of Mexico. The river was discovered by DeSoto in 1541. Marquette and Joliet were the second white men to see the Mississippi when they reached the mouth of the Wisconsin River in 1673.
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river The Amazon River used to flow in the opposite direction. Today, the river flows from the mountains of Peru in the west to the Atlantic Ocean in the east. But millions of years ago, it actually flowed from east to west, emptying into the Pacific Ocean.
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- My folks at age 22 canoed down the Mississippi in 1940 in my dad’s homemade yellow canoe. People in the river towns took them in at night and fed them. They went all the way down to St. Louis. I believe they started in northern Illinois somewhere.
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Mississippi River The name Mississippi comes from the French Messipi - the French rendering of the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe or Algonquin) name for the river, Misi-ziibi, meaning Great River. . The Mississippi River flows over 2,350 miles, from Lake Itasca, Minnesota, to the Gulf of Mexico. . 40% of North America's ducks, geese, swan and wading bird species rely on the Mississippi River as a migration corridor. . 241 fish species inhabit the Mississippi River and its tributaries. .
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- September 22, 2014 Article. the mississippi river empties into the gulf. and the gulf enters the sea and so forth, none of them emptying anything, all of them carrying yesterday. forever on their white tipped backs, all of them dragging forward tomorrow. it is the great circulation. of the earth’s body, like the blood.
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- In recent years, the Colorado River has rarely flowed through its delta and into the Gulf of California. One-tenth of the river's former flow (1.5 million acre-feet per year) is sent into Mexico each year but this water is diverted west by the Morelos Dam for agricultural and urban use.
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History The Mississippi River originates as a tiny outlet stream from Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota. During a meandering 2,350 mile journey south to the Gulf of Mexico, the Mississippi River is joined by hundreds of tributaries, including the Ohio and Missouri Rivers. Water from parts or all of 31 states drains into the Mississippi River, and creates a drainage basin over 1,245,000 square miles in size. Before reaching the Gulf, the Mississippi meets up with its distributary, the Atchafalaya River.
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Mississippi River Basin The Mississippi flows 3,763 kilometers (2,333 miles) from Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota to its delta in southern Louisiana (see map). The Mississippi River Basin encompasses more than 40 percent of the U.S. land area.
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When did the Mississippi River freeze over in 1942? The Red River in Minnesota and Canada every dozen years freezes and then thaws unevenly causing floods unless towns build dikes or huge diversion dams like at Winnipeg in Canada. Now in 2009 the Mississippi River freezes north of Iowa, and south of Iowa there are patches of freezing. Around 1900 in St. Louis the river froze which surprised most there although it was really an ice dam of millions of icebergs, and people walked across this ice gorge of ice jams.
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- A colleague of mine (I work at a university) said at least semi-seriously that, except for the Nile, the Wallkill is the only river in the world that flows north.
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Mississippi River From its origin at Lake Itasca to St. Louis, Missouri, the flow of the Mississippi River is moderated by 43 dams. The average depth of the Mississippi River is 120 feet to 130 feet deep with the maximum depth being 150 feet. http://chestofbooks.com/reference/Americ... http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Mississip...