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Meandering Mississippi River

7/29/2020

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As the Mississippi River meanders over time, the channels migrate across the floodplain. Due to these changes in the position of the channel, some farms, towns, and rural lands occasionally switch to the opposite banks of the river. For instance, Archer and Bell islands are still official parts of Arkansas, but they are now located east of the Mississippi River. - NASA Link
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Christopher Mercado
9/29/2020 04:44:10 pm

This article discusses how the meandering of the Mississippi has resulted in territory that belongs to Arkansas wound up being located East of Mississippi, when historically everything West of the Mississippi was classified as "Arkansas". This is related to our current module because meanders are formed through erosion of the outer bank of the stream and the deposition of sediments on the inner bank of the stream. Meanders may not result in landslides, but the process is still related to erosion and our current unit. What I found to be of particular interest in this article was the picture illustrating where the boundaries between the two states are. This boundary is a representation of what the Mississippi River used to look like, and I find it fascinating just how much the river has changed since those boundary lines were drawn.

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