I live in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. The Mississippi river is just a block away from my house. I spent my 25th birthday swimming at its source in Lake Itasca further northwest. Its one mighty and impressive river! From the northwoods of Minnesota, down the fertile prairies of Iowa, Illinois and Missouri way down to the hot steamy bayous of Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico
I remember crossing the Mississippi at St Louis as a kid and was totally amazed at its size. I now live on the Rhine, one of Europe's biggest waterways, but it does not begin to compare
I remember crossing the Rhine back in 95 timeframe.... It was just outside of Strasborg, France. I remember thinking about the Germans during WW2 and how they must've crossed at this same area. It was in Feb and very misty and foggy that day, kind of creepy in a way.
There is an odd place on the far reaches of the Missouri: "Two Ocean Pass". A wetland that has two exits: Atlantic Creek, which flows into the Yellowstone and from that to the Missouri, and Pacific Creek which flows into the Snake and from that to the Columbia. Some speculation that species from (or native) to one watershed have simply crossed into the other. There are doubtless other instances of this worldwide, but it is an interesting occurrence.
There is one creek I believe it’s called 2 ocean creek that splits at a point appropriately called “ parting of the waters. That is the spot you are talking about.
@@toddbaker1574 Yes, in fact, I first heard of it as "Two Ocean Creek", but much of what I subsequently found called it "Two Ocean Pass", so I'll guess it is know by both (and maybe more). So, maybe the Carp in the Mississippi (trying to get to L Michigan) have branched with some going up the Missouri and from that water route could get to the Columbia?
I love what the Mississippi has done for the landscape, especially where the tributaries flow. For 50 miles to the east and west, you have such a wonderfully rich landscape of hills that are just beautiful. Disclaimer: I grew up about 30 miles west of the Mississippi in that type of hilly area.
Interesting choice for the photo of St. Louis. The photo is from when much of the old riverfront was razed to make way for the construction of the arch.
I was born and raised in Mount Carroll Illinois just 10 miles from the Mississippi River. So I’m pretty familiar with at least part of the Mississippi River. My dad used to go fishing in some of the creeks that flow into the Mississippi.
Fantastic video!! Born/raised in St. Louis County Missouri. Now I live about 50 miles west of St. Louis. I've always enjoyed both the Missouri river and The Mississippi rivers.
Water also flows north into Hudson Bay and east through Lakes to St Lawrence seaway etc, all adjacent and very near the Mississippi basin. The most subtle changes in topography could have sent more water into the Mississippi basin. Also interesting, only in Minnesota can a rain cloud put precipitation in 3 different major continental watersheds, and of course Minnesota being the source of the Mississippi.
Geologists say that the Mississippi River is a tributary of the Missouri River. Long ago the Missouri River ran west of Crowley's Ridge and the Ohio River ran east of the ridge down to the Gulf of Mexico. Then the New Madrid Fault Zone had some earthquakes that made the three take new channels where the Missouri -Mississippi River flowed into the Ohio River's channel.
I have crossed the Mississippi in every state it touches (except Kentucky, for some reason...), worked near its headwaters and rode a steamboat in New Orleans plus worked many places near it in between. Incredible lifeblood of America (even if technically it SHOULD be called The Missouri...!!!).
Hey, I actually already have a small series about that. So far I have a video about the Amazon River and the Ganges River in a similar style as this one and there are more to come!
@sondra-ht7ho Its a beautiful area but if you visit in the summer, beware... the flies up there BITE like crazy! Besides that .. swimming in the river is a joy
Correct spelling is Itasca. I've been to the headwaters. There is a small park along with a sign that indicates that this is the headwaters, and how far it flows to the gulf of Mexico. Most people take the opportunity to walk to the other side, which is about 30 feet across in what is generally about 20 inch deep water. (9 meters, 51cm).
I found myself standing in ankle deep water in the middle of the Mighty Mississippi. We were on a bass boat going 30 mph when we hit a sand bar. I was trying to push us off the sand bar, surrounded by water on every side. It is a force of nature.
@@Schneids71I meant to type Illinois. You got me thinking though and, yes, there is a part of Michigan that is south of Lake Michigan: the Traverse City area. All of Lake Michigan, then no, there isn't.
Alberta has 4 watershed basins. The Milk, the Saskatchewan, the Athabascan, and one river that flow s into the Pacific in the Rockies. Can't remember the name.Might be that creek that flows along the Yellowhead pass by Jasper.
You showed timber being moved north into Minnesota but that’s where the trees were cut down timber came from Minnesota.. logging was huge in Minnesota in the 1850s-1880s
It is September 2023, that is happening right now. It is affecting the fresh water intakes of New Orleans and surrounding communities. New Orleans will not be a completely salt water port unless the River jumps to the Atchafalaya River channel.
It would have been interesting to start with origins of The Mississippi prior to the last Ice Age. The ancient Teays river which had the Ohio and Mississippi as minor tributaries. Presently the only remnants of The Teays are The Kanawha/New River, a tributary to The Ohio at Charleston WV The Teays River is judged to be the 2nd oldest river in the world, The Nile is older.
"Michi Sepe.” An Indian tribal name denoting "muddy water” and named for the large river, Ojibwe word Misi-ziibi (Great River). The Dakota knew it as Hahawakpa (River of the Waterfalls). The Ojibwe were brought to Mnisota by water, and it is central to their cosmology.
In general, the US does NOT refer to kilometers for measurement. We use miles and that would make this video more intelligible to the people in the US-the main group interested in the Mississippi River. PS, “corps” is pronounced as “core”.
The ancient New River existed before Pangea split up. There was no Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico yet, those formed together as Pangea broke apart. Even after Pangea began to pull apart the New River flowed north, not south. That ancient river has been called the Teays River, after the Teays Valley in West Virginia. Today it flows into the Ohio River via the Kanawha River but the Ohio itself is much younger. Ice Age glaciation blocked the old valleys to the north forming lakes along the south margin of the glaciers. Eventually the lakes got deep enough to overflow into adjacent valleys, cutting new channels which would become a major river. Both the Ohio and Missouri Rivers trace out the approximate southernmost edge of those glaciers before reaching the Mississippi.
Seinfeld Jerry asks George "who do you like (explorer)"? George replies "I like de Soto" Jerry asks "what did he do"? George says "He discovered the Mississippi" Jerry replies "Yeah, like they wouldn't have found that anyway".
Rivers are drainage channels that drain the overflow of rainfall that doesn't soak into the ground. The water flows from higher gound to to the lower ground by gravity. The channel of a river is a series of lowpoints along the path the rivers take to get the water to the sea. The tributaries meet the main river and flow into that river because their channels line is higher than the channels line of the main river. This is the confluence of the two rivers. If when you look at a map or satellite view on Google maps of the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers it appears as the Ohio is wider and making a sweeping curve from the east to the south. It shows the Mississippi as a narrower river flowing into that curve. It would from that appear that the Ohio was the main river and the Mississippi was the tributary river. The only way to know for sure which is the main and which is the trib would be to survey the channels to see which channel is lower. We can't do that though in this case, because the US Army Corp of Engineers has messed with the natural flow of the rivers and dredged the bottom of the channels among other things that we can never know which is the real big daddy of them all. The Ohio has my vote as the greater river.
By volume the Ohio river contributes roughly 66% and the Mississippi 33% of the combined flow of the two rivers downstream of the confluence. Imop the combined river should be named Ohio. But what do I know?
When defining the Mississippian water shed area, it looks like area at the northeasterly tip was omitted? You did add in the Ohio River, but it appears that both the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers were omitted. The Allegheny starts in New York, wayyyy easterly of the Ohio River. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
I think I want Kamala Harris to explain it. Her explanation of the Russia/Ukraine war was breathtakingly brilliant. I just thought since she knows geopolitics so well, she should know geography too
Why do the rivers of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana go to the Mississippi River and not to Lake Michigan or Lake Superior? Do the lakes sit higher than the surrounding area?
Correction: Alberta is not a territory, it is a Canadian province. Canada's three territories-Yukon, North West Territories and Nunavut-are much further north
One very large sewer line, all cities pour their sewage waste into the river, the lumps are screened out but all the chemicals are discharged into the river, a fact.
Why not Block the Mississippi at the exit into the ocean to at least slow down the water into the ocean until the river fills up again. Basically NOT block it completely but at least slow the water going into the ocean. Thanks
There are locks and dams north of STL that do just that.. the problem is south of STL, (primarily South of Cape Girardeau) the land is so flat that you cannot create a resevoir. The river will just make another path elsewhere. (In between STL and Cape Girardeau the river narrows down to a half mile wide and is to wild to make any dams on that stretch as well) (i live an hour south of STL around river communities so i know the Mississippi River very well.. and have even kaysked on the some of the roughest parts... why? Cause its my local area)
The army corps has engineers that have already built structures like that in some places. When the river is very low & saltwater creeps up the river bottom from the gulf they build a temporary bar on the riverbed to ward off damage to water systems.
@awedelen1 cant really imagine how it would work (seawater diversion), but i see all the wingdams and Horseshoe dikes all the time, so i know they are capable of geeat feats
@@leslietaylor4458 , They’ll dredge the bottom & make a small sand bar that ships can still pass over. Since saltwater is heavier the hope is that much of it will stop or reverse at the sand bar. riverwater >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> riverwater >>> ^ sand bar ^
For those people who believe the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon, I have a question. If that's true, then why don't we have multiple grand canyons all along the course of the Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio rivers? Especially in light of all the material that's built up the delta in the Gulf over thousands of years? Food for thought.
The Mississippi hasn't carved it's own channel, it's too young. Mississippi is 10,000-12,000 years old. The Colorado is 8-10 million. People have a hard time thinking in geologic time scales? What do YOU think made the Grand Canyon?
@@brianmiller1077 oh, I see. So since we only have one Grand Canyon on the earth, that must mean that the Colorado River is the oldest river in the world -- by millions, apparently. 😁 C'mon, even secular geologists have finally debunked the idea that the Canyon was carved by the Colorado. Get with the times.
0:41 ..... when i was a kid, the Mississippi _was_ the longes river in the USA. later, they added smaller tributaries, thus extending the Missouri. i call BS.
I live in the Twin Cities in Minnesota. The Mississippi river is just a block away from my house. I spent my 25th birthday swimming at its source in Lake Itasca further northwest. Its one mighty and impressive river! From the northwoods of Minnesota, down the fertile prairies of Iowa, Illinois and Missouri way down to the hot steamy bayous of Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico
Curious, at its source is it shallow enough to walk across? Obviously you'll get wet but would your head stay above the water?
@XR171 Yes. I have a photo of me standing in the middle of the river. My feet on the ground. My torso completely above water, even my belly button
You just gave me an idea for my next birthday I live a block from the river too near downtown 😂 always wanted to meet where it all starts
Did you not think that alligators may be out there. Just a thought.
@@davidaaaa4611 In Minnesota? Lol 😆
Mississippi river can't keep us apart , there's too much love in the Mississippi heart
History begs to differ.
Great song!!!
Shiiiiddddd. Not mikkkikkkippi
That alligator just swim to slow
“The Mighty Mississipp! The Old Man! The olllld Miss!” - Clark W. Griswold
Dee-eeep river...
Hahahahahahaha
I was thinking about that the whole video.
I remember crossing the Mississippi at St Louis as a kid and was totally amazed at its size. I now live on the Rhine, one of Europe's biggest waterways, but it does not begin to compare
Mississippi should really be considered a tributary river of Missouri river, not the other way around.
Yes, I assume that is most likely a historical convention as the Missouri did not gain significance until later
On the other hand, we have no castles of any note.
I remember crossing the Rhine back in 95 timeframe.... It was just outside of Strasborg, France. I remember thinking about the Germans during WW2 and how they must've crossed at this same area. It was in Feb and very misty and foggy that day, kind of creepy in a way.
@@TellenJonesexactly dude
Beautifully explained in limited time 🙏
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Thank you so much 🙂
There is an odd place on the far reaches of the Missouri: "Two Ocean Pass". A wetland that has two exits: Atlantic Creek, which flows into the Yellowstone and from that to the Missouri, and Pacific Creek which flows into the Snake and from that to the Columbia. Some speculation that species from (or native) to one watershed have simply crossed into the other. There are doubtless other instances of this worldwide, but it is an interesting occurrence.
Continental Davide??
@@avgjoe-cz7cbcontinental David's not here man
@@clayton5584 I'm sorry David I continental do that
There is one creek I believe it’s called 2 ocean creek that splits at a point appropriately called “ parting of the waters. That is the spot you are talking about.
@@toddbaker1574 Yes, in fact, I first heard of it as "Two Ocean Creek", but much of what I subsequently found called it "Two Ocean Pass", so I'll guess it is know by both (and maybe more).
So, maybe the Carp in the Mississippi (trying to get to L Michigan) have branched with some going up the Missouri and from that water route could get to the Columbia?
I love what the Mississippi has done for the landscape, especially where the tributaries flow. For 50 miles to the east and west, you have such a wonderfully rich landscape of hills that are just beautiful.
Disclaimer: I grew up about 30 miles west of the Mississippi in that type of hilly area.
I am a Native of Iowa. The Mississippi is our Eastern border and the Missouri is our Western border.
You're the only state that has the entirety of the eastern and western borders as rivers. RAGBRAI fact they tell us.
@@jayteegamble I rode across Iowa with 10,000 Humans many years ago.
The Missouri is PART OF your western border. From Sioux City northwards it is the Big Sioux river
You owe Argh, I owe Argh.
Argh. We owe him. 😂 🐂🎯
Interesting choice for the photo of St. Louis. The photo is from when much of the old riverfront was razed to make way for the construction of the arch.
I noticed that too! Un-Iconic.
I was born and raised in Mount Carroll Illinois just 10 miles from the Mississippi River. So I’m pretty familiar with at least part of the Mississippi River. My dad used to go fishing in some of the creeks that flow into the Mississippi.
Excellent! Better than what we learned in school.
In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with Colonel Jackson down the mighty Mississip' Good short video, thanks for posting.
Me and a dude I used to know would sing:
"Well, in 1418 we trook a little tip
along with Jernel Kakson down the Sissamightymip!"
Fantastic video!! Born/raised in St. Louis County Missouri. Now I live about 50 miles west of St. Louis. I've always enjoyed both the Missouri river and The Mississippi rivers.
Great informative video! Keep up the good work!
I read 'The Mississippi River Expanded in under 3 minutes'
I read 'the Mississippi River Examined in under 3 minutes'
Noo thanks. We are not sending our water out west
I read ‘The Mississippi River Exorcised in under 3 minutes’
Thank God I wasn't the only one.
Reading is fundamental.
...3 minutes, or 180 Mississippis ;)
Saw the Mississippi River when I was in Memphis..there’s a park there, I sat there for hours❤
There is a small part of the state of Michigan that flows eventually into the Mississippi via the Kankakee River.
Water also flows north into Hudson Bay and east through Lakes to St Lawrence seaway etc, all adjacent and very near the Mississippi basin. The most subtle changes in topography could have sent more water into the Mississippi basin. Also interesting, only in Minnesota can a rain cloud put precipitation in 3 different major continental watersheds, and of course Minnesota being the source of the Mississippi.
Geologists say that the Mississippi River is a tributary of the Missouri River. Long ago the Missouri River ran west of Crowley's Ridge and the Ohio River ran east of the ridge down to the Gulf of Mexico. Then the New Madrid Fault Zone had some earthquakes that made the three take new channels where the Missouri -Mississippi River flowed into the Ohio River's channel.
That's not true
You mentioned sediment in teh river. The pionoeers had a saying about the Missippi, "Too thick (muddy) to drink but too thin to plow". :)
Do a follow-up exploring the headwaters!
Very educational in 3 minutes. 🌎⏳
Mississippi River explained in 3 words: Water flowing downhill
Just FYI: It is pronounced “CORE” not Corps.
Corpse - a dead body
BO never learned this.
1:55
AI is ignorant of correct pronunciation.
And talking kilometers.
This is a mighty River
I have crossed the Mississippi in every state it touches (except Kentucky, for some reason...), worked near its headwaters and rode a steamboat in New Orleans plus worked many places near it in between. Incredible lifeblood of America (even if technically it SHOULD be called The Missouri...!!!).
You should make a series in which you explain different rivers from the different parts of the world like the Danube, the Nile, the Indus and e.t.c.
Hey, I actually already have a small series about that. So far I have a video about the Amazon River and the Ganges River in a similar style as this one and there are more to come!
@@FactSpark Oh, okay. You should make a video on the Nile and the Indus. These two rivers are full of history.
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The Kickapoo river in Wisconsin is the longest most crooked river in the world. I believe in the native Indian language it's namesake means crooked.
Or, someone gave me a good BS line of 💩
Oh my, this video is about your subject and not about you. Novel idea! Thanks for the brevity packed with information.
We have a little creek behind our house. I followed it on a map. It makes it’s way to the Mississippi 😊
Thank you, teacher!
The Mississippi starts at Lake Itaska. You can easily walk across the headwaters.
I've always wanted to see where it starts!❤ Neat!
@sondra-ht7ho Its a beautiful area but if you visit in the summer, beware... the flies up there BITE like crazy! Besides that .. swimming in the river is a joy
Correct spelling is Itasca. I've been to the headwaters. There is a small park along with a sign that indicates that this is the headwaters, and how far it flows to the gulf of Mexico. Most people take the opportunity to walk to the other side, which is about 30 feet across in what is generally about 20 inch deep water. (9 meters, 51cm).
Great explanation 👌
I found myself standing in ankle deep water in the middle of the Mighty Mississippi. We were on a bass boat going 30 mph when we hit a sand bar. I was trying to push us off the sand bar, surrounded by water on every side. It is a force of nature.
Thank you!
the limestone bluffs along the upper mississippi river is beautiful,,from dubuque,ia uptp la crosse wi
Wow nice video amazing nice place
It's amazing how the topography in Michigan funnels water to the Mississippi River instead of just a few miles north into Lake Michigan.
Where in the state of Michigan are you south of Lake Michigan?
@@Schneids71I meant to type Illinois.
You got me thinking though and, yes, there is a part of Michigan that is south of Lake Michigan: the Traverse City area. All of Lake Michigan, then no, there isn't.
Excellent video
Thats awesome. I grew up just 1,975 miles west of the Mississippi River. I've always wanted to check it out one of these days
You omitted that 28,000 sq kms flow south from Canadian Prairies into The Basin
They did mention Alberta, but a small portion of Saskatchewan is included. Sask, by thaw has 97000 lakes.
Alberta has 4 watershed basins. The Milk, the Saskatchewan, the Athabascan, and one river that flow s into the Pacific in the Rockies. Can't remember the name.Might be that creek that flows along the Yellowhead pass by Jasper.
Mother Nature is amazing!✌️
Great Information
Nice Information!!!
You showed timber being moved north into Minnesota but that’s where the trees were cut down timber came from Minnesota.. logging was huge in Minnesota in the 1850s-1880s
If the river slows down too much the gulf moves up and NO is a salt water port ...
It is September 2023, that is happening right now. It is affecting the fresh water intakes of New Orleans and surrounding communities. New Orleans will not be a completely salt water port unless the River jumps to the Atchafalaya River channel.
@@jakurdadov6375 You are correct..)))
It would have been interesting to start with origins of The Mississippi prior to the last Ice Age. The ancient Teays river which had the Ohio and Mississippi as minor tributaries. Presently the only remnants of The Teays are The Kanawha/New River, a tributary to The Ohio at Charleston WV The Teays River is judged to be the 2nd oldest river in the world, The Nile is older.
Thanks a lot
You missed the units for the area, it should be 3.200.000 km ^2, not m^2
The whole thing should have been in miles, not metric.
Correction: Alberta is not a territory. While Canada does have territories, Alberta is a province.
fun fact radio stations on the east side of the miss river start with a W on the west side radion stations start with letter K
That looked like a salt water crocodile to me, but I'm being picky. Great presentation!!!
Well done! Where did you find the excellent maps used in this video? I always wanted a good map of US River Systems but could never find a decent one.
I live in Louisiana and in June when the river is high it flows at 4.3 million cubic feet per second. That’s a lot of water
Water seeks the path of least resistance.
Isn't that to logical these days to understand ? Maybe they one day are so advanced to understand climate is changing to the solar system
Which means the earth is flat and it's not going up the earths curvature... because there isn't an earth curvature
The Mississippi actually flows north for twenty miles before it heads south. Check out the headwaters at Itasca state park.
"Michi Sepe.” An Indian tribal name denoting "muddy water” and named for the large river, Ojibwe word Misi-ziibi (Great River). The Dakota knew it as Hahawakpa (River of the Waterfalls). The Ojibwe were brought to Mnisota by water, and it is central to their cosmology.
Interesting. Thank you.
The Missouri River originally ran to Hudson Bay far north.. it got diverted by the glaciers to where it is today.
In general, the US does NOT refer to kilometers for measurement. We use miles and that would make this video more intelligible to the people in the US-the main group interested in the Mississippi River. PS, “corps” is pronounced as “core”.
Kilometres is better for everyone. It is about time that the USA catch up with rest of the world. Metric is so much easier to use.
@@gordonwaldner9792 Absolutely!
grow up.
@@rizkyadiyanto7922 To whom is that directed?
@gordonwaldner9792 We dont care for metric. We tried in the '70s and it didn't work. Get over it. Personally I only like metric for measuring liquids.
Alligators?? 😮 hey man i enjoy my river in Minnesota now there's Alligators
Great video! (Mississippi Queen! You know what I mean.)
The oldest river in north America is the new river. The new river was flowing toward the gulf of Mexico before the Mississippi River did not exist.
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The New River runs from south to North. Einstein!
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The ancient New River existed before Pangea split up. There was no Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico yet, those formed together as Pangea broke apart.
Even after Pangea began to pull apart the New River flowed north, not south. That ancient river has been called the Teays River, after the Teays Valley in West Virginia. Today it flows into the Ohio River via the Kanawha River but the Ohio itself is much younger. Ice Age glaciation blocked the old valleys to the north forming lakes along the south margin of the glaciers. Eventually the lakes got deep enough to overflow into adjacent valleys, cutting new channels which would become a major river. Both the Ohio and Missouri Rivers trace out the approximate southernmost edge of those glaciers before reaching the Mississippi.
Make a video on Ganga river....
Spiritually Devine and life line of north India....
I did already: ruclips.net/video/VrpNOkrJnas/видео.html Enjoy!
@@FactSpark thanks brother....
@@FactSpark I'm from patna, BR.... The city which is on the bank of Ganga river....lots of love from 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
the most polluted river in the world.
Wouldn't it be fun to kayak down the entire river. !!
Seinfeld
Jerry asks George "who do you like (explorer)"?
George replies "I like de Soto"
Jerry asks "what did he do"?
George says "He discovered the Mississippi"
Jerry replies "Yeah, like they wouldn't have found that anyway".
Rivers are drainage channels that drain the overflow of rainfall that doesn't soak into the ground. The water flows from higher gound to to the lower ground by gravity. The channel of a river is a series of lowpoints along the path the rivers take to get the water to the sea. The tributaries meet the main river and flow into that river because their channels line is higher than the channels line of the main river. This is the confluence of the two rivers. If when you look at a map or satellite view on Google maps of the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers it appears as the Ohio is wider and making a sweeping curve from the east to the south. It shows the Mississippi as a narrower river flowing into that curve. It would from that appear that the Ohio was the main river and the Mississippi was the tributary river. The only way to know for sure which is the main and which is the trib would be to survey the channels to see which channel is lower. We can't do that though in this case, because the US Army Corp of Engineers has messed with the natural flow of the rivers and dredged the bottom of the channels among other things that we can never know which is the real big daddy of them all. The Ohio has my vote as the greater river.
By volume the Ohio river contributes roughly 66% and the Mississippi 33% of the combined flow of the two rivers downstream of the confluence. Imop the combined river should be named Ohio. But what do I know?
@@bradley-eblesisorok its Ohio River from now on.
When defining the Mississippian water shed area, it looks like area at the northeasterly tip was omitted? You did add in the Ohio River, but it appears that both the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers were omitted. The Allegheny starts in New York, wayyyy easterly of the Ohio River.
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
You said that only Wien, Budapest and Bratislava are crossed by Danube: what about Belgrade?
I think I want Kamala Harris to explain it. Her explanation of the Russia/Ukraine war was breathtakingly brilliant. I just thought since she knows geopolitics so well, she should know geography too
It was created by glaciers from the most recent Iceage less than 12,000 years ago!
This is false. The Mississippi River is 10's of millions of years old.
Why do the rivers of Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana go to the Mississippi River and not to Lake Michigan or Lake Superior? Do the lakes sit higher than the surrounding area?
1:55 "Corps" lol...
A military unit consisting entirely of the corpses of engineers.
It's actually pronounced "core".
Was about to make the same comment
next the great lake also must go by drain out effect
Excellent comment…!!
Well I taught that weeping willow how to cry cry cry,
Taught the clouds how to cover up a clear blue sky.
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I met her accidentally in St. Paul Minnesota
Well I heard my dream went back downstream, cavortin' in davenport,
The graphic say's 3.2 million mi2 while the narrator says 3.2 million square kilometers. Which is it?
I can explain it in a few words, "A long river."
once it drain out the florida coast panama ocean sucking it out entirety is very possible 2 right?
Wow
That's not the natural channel of the river, Pittsburgh to New Orleans is the natural channel.
"Tributories?" [sic]
"Corpse"
Is this a text-to-voice robot narrating?
It's just me speaking into a microphone, english is not my first language.
river flow drawn down south coast it does work
Correction: Alberta is not a territory, it is a Canadian province. Canada's three territories-Yukon, North West Territories and Nunavut-are much further north
FYI Corps is pronounced like core
Yea frenchy not corpse
1:55
WOW
One very large sewer line, all cities pour their sewage waste into the river, the lumps are screened out but all the chemicals are discharged into the river, a fact.
Why not Block the Mississippi at the exit into the ocean to at least slow down the water into the ocean until the river fills up again. Basically NOT block it completely but at least slow the water going into the ocean. Thanks
There are locks and dams north of STL that do just that.. the problem is south of STL, (primarily South of Cape Girardeau) the land is so flat that you cannot create a resevoir. The river will just make another path elsewhere.
(In between STL and Cape Girardeau the river narrows down to a half mile wide and is to wild to make any dams on that stretch as well) (i live an hour south of STL around river communities so i know the Mississippi River very well.. and have even kaysked on the some of the roughest parts... why? Cause its my local area)
The army corps has engineers that have already built structures like that in some places. When the river is very low & saltwater creeps up the river bottom from the gulf they build a temporary bar on the riverbed to ward off damage to water systems.
@awedelen1 cant really imagine how it would work (seawater diversion), but i see all the wingdams and Horseshoe dikes all the time, so i know they are capable of geeat feats
@@leslietaylor4458 ,
They’ll dredge the bottom & make a small sand bar that ships can still pass over. Since saltwater is heavier the hope is that much of it will stop or reverse at the sand bar.
riverwater >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
riverwater >>> ^ sand bar ^
Doubt you can control it, the Mississippi is 200 feet deep down there.
Alberta is a province of Canada not a Territory
Too bad Alberta isn’t a Republic independent of Canada.
It's Canada...no one cares.
Nerd
@@101stairscouts6Alberta is where you get most of your oil
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its that my friends told me have you herd about the Mississippi River and I was like no
For those people who believe the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon, I have a question. If that's true, then why don't we have multiple grand canyons all along the course of the Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio rivers? Especially in light of all the material that's built up the delta in the Gulf over thousands of years?
Food for thought.
Geology. Look into it.
@@jakurdadov6375 I noticed you didn't answer my question, Mr. Geology.
The Mississippi hasn't carved it's own channel, it's too young. Mississippi is 10,000-12,000 years old. The Colorado is 8-10 million.
People have a hard time thinking in geologic time scales?
What do YOU think made the Grand Canyon?
@@brianmiller1077 oh, I see. So since we only have one Grand Canyon on the earth, that must mean that the Colorado River is the oldest river in the world -- by millions, apparently. 😁
C'mon, even secular geologists have finally debunked the idea that the Canyon was carved by the Colorado. Get with the times.
@@desertrat77 You didn't answer my question Mr Geology :)
The center piece of American power
I'm from California and everything gets explained by "west of the Mississippi" or "on this side of the country", or "to the east of the Mississippi"
I'm sorry, but I had hoped for an explanation not of how it's economically important now, but how it formed, geologically.
I had a friend that wanted to join the Marine Corpse but he changed his mind and enlisted in the Army Corpse of Engineers. 🤣
I can explain the Mississippi. It starts in Minnesota and ends at the Gulf of Mexico. There! End of the video. 😊
Just here recently has the Missouri River been named the longest river it ain't that much.
Initially I thought George Takei was narrating
0:41 ..... when i was a kid, the Mississippi _was_ the longes river in the USA. later, they added smaller tributaries, thus extending the Missouri.
i call BS.
La Territory was created by draining the Mississippi river back into the ocean using the underground piping system.
Pipe it back in.
It for the most part separates K's from W's.