Because yazoo streams are separated from the main river by natural levees, they flow and meander ( streams and rivers rarely flow in straight lines ) parallel to the main stream channel or river on the floodplain for a considerable distance.
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Between the Mississippi River and Little River District drainage ditches lies one of the oldest drainage systems in the United States, Crowley s Ridge, established in 1905, is a remnant of an old coastal floodplain and natural levee that crosses the country.
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In the 1720s French settlers became the first Europeans to settle Metairie in the area known then as Tchoupitoulas and now as Metairie Ridge, a natural levee formed by an ancient branch of the Mississippi River which flowed through modern-day Gentilly, and New Orleans East.
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These natural levees form when relatively mobile, liquefied, fine-grained debris in the body of debris flows shoulders aside coarse, high-friction debris that collects in debris-flow heads as a consequence of grain-size segregation ( a familiar phenomenon in sorting of sediment grains distinguishes debris-flow deposits from most water-laid sediments.
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A few of the park's old live oak trees were blown down when Hurricane Katrina hit the city in 2005, but as the park is wholly located on high ground comprising the Mississippi River's natural levee, it was spared the National Guard troops and relief workers after the storm.
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The Metairie Ridge, a natural levee formation of the Bayou Metairie ( no longer extant, except in City Park ) along whose course Metairie Road now proceeds, trends through the neighborhood and provides above-sea-level elevation for much of the land situated within a quarter of a mile of Metairie Road.
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Fertile soils are found only along the natural levees and narrow floodplains of the numerous rivers, including the Escondido, the R�o Grande de Matagalpa, the Prinzapolka, and the Coco, and along the many lesser streams that rise in the central highlands and cross the region en route to the complex of shallow bays, lagoons, and salt marshes of the Caribbean coast.
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The Town Bridge maintains the line of the road to Lindsey and from its western end, looking at the river side of the Exchange Building to the right, it is possible to see how the two ends of the building, founded on the natural levees of The Haven, have stood firm while the middle has sunk into the infill of the former river.
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Mid-City is located, as the name indicates, in the middle of New Orleans on what was once the backslope of the Mississippi River natural levee, a gradually declining section of the river's Metairie Ridge formed a natural spur from the River; but what is now Mid-City, surrounded by these higher-elevated sections, was part of the " backswamp " until development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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