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Average discharge of 450,000 cu ft/s (12,743 m³/s)
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What two rivers drain a huge area of the US?
just search for the to biggest rivers in America. use Goggle! The Mississippi and the Missouri are the two longest rivers, but the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Columbia and the Yukon rivers are the top four in terms of average discharge at the mouth.
Why is ocean ocean water salinity greatly reduced at the mouths of the amazon Congo and Mississippi rivers?
Because of the high discharge of freshwater
What streams does the Mississippi River act as a base level?
Seal level is the ultimate base level for rivers that discharge into the Oceans; thus sea level is the base level for the Mississippi River.
Which two rivers come together in st. Louis?
Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.
Is Mississippi the biggest river?
The Mississippi-Missouri-Jefferson system is the fourth longest and the tenth largest river in the world. In the US the Missouri is longest, but the Mississippi has the largest discharge of water by far.
Largest rivers in north america?
It is common knowledge that the Mississippi is the largest U.S. river, but what is the rank of other major U.S. rivers? Rivers are considered large on the basis of one or more of three characteristics: total length from source to mouth, area of basin (watershed) drained by the stream, and average rate of flow (discharge) at the mouth. The alphabetical list on the back of this sheet shows these characteristics of 32 rivers so as to include the 20 largest rivers in each of the three categories. Among the 32 rivers, 16 are tributary to other rivers on the list; the remaining rivers discharge directly into oceans, seas, gulfs, or bays.
What two rivers come together in St. Louis?
The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers come together just north of St. Louis.
What rivers are near Mississippi?
The major rivers in Mississippi are Mississippi River, Big Black River, Pearl River, and Yazoo River.
How are Amazon and Nile and the Mississippi rivers alike?
they are rivers
What two major rivers feed into the Mississippi river?
The Missouri and the Ohio rivers are the two major rivers that merge into the Mississippi.
What river is the father of all rivers?
The Father of all Rivers is known as The Mississippi River. But the Father of all rivers worldwide is the Nile.
What rivers separate Louisiana and Mississippi?
The Mississippi River separates Louisiana and Mississippi.
