When a fast moving stream meets a slow moving stream or a still body of water, it deposits its load of sediment in the slow moving stream. This is how the tributaries to the Upper Mississippi built its floodplain. Rivers, like the Wisconsin, deposited sediment eroded from its uplands in the slow moving Mississippi, creating [...]
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