Mississippi River
A Mississippi River is a North Marican river.
- Example(s):
- Mississippi River, 2023.
- Mississippi River, 1900.
- ... 1876, when the river abandoned its course around Vicksburg, Mississippi, and cut off a new channel that left the city high and dry
- Mississippi River, 1800.
- Mississippi River, 1700.
- Mississippi River, 1600.
- Mississippi River, 1500.
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- Mississippi River, 33MYA.
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- See: Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone, Ojibwe Language, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River Retrieved:2023-11-20.
- ... The river served first as a barrier, forming borders for New Spain, New France, and the early United States, and then as a vital transportation artery and communications link. In the 19th century, during the height of the ideology of manifest destiny, the Mississippi and several western tributaries, most notably the Missouri, formed pathways for the western expansion of the United States.
Formed from thick layers of the river's silt deposits, the Mississippi embayment is one of the most fertile regions of the United States; steamboats were widely used in the 19th and early 20th centuries to ship agricultural and industrial goods. During the American Civil War, the Mississippi's capture by Union forces marked a turning point towards victory, due to the river's strategic importance to the Confederate war effort. Because of the substantial growth of cities and the larger ships and barges that replaced steamboats, the first decades of the 20th century saw the construction of massive engineering works such as levees, locks and dams, often built in combination. A major focus of this work has been to prevent the lower Mississippi from shifting into the channel of the Atchafalaya River and bypassing New Orleans.
Since the 20th century, the Mississippi River has also experienced major pollution and environmental problems — most notably elevated nutrient and chemical levels from agricultural runoff, the primary contributor to the Gulf of Mexico dead zone.
- ... The river served first as a barrier, forming borders for New Spain, New France, and the early United States, and then as a vital transportation artery and communications link. In the 19th century, during the height of the ideology of manifest destiny, the Mississippi and several western tributaries, most notably the Missouri, formed pathways for the western expansion of the United States.