Yazoo stream

Yazoo stream

A yazoo stream is hydrologic term for any tributary stream that runs parallel to, and within the floodplain of, a larger river that the stream eventually joins. Where the two meet is known as a belated confluence or deferred junction. This is especially when such a stream is forced to flow along the base of the main stream's natural levee. The name comes from the Yazoo River which runs parallel to the Mississippi River for 280 km (175 miles) before converging, constrained from doing so by levees.

References

[http://www.bartleby.com/65/ya/Yazoo.html The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2006]


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