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Coldwater Creek (also Cold Water Creek) is a 19-mile tributary of the Missouri River in north St. Louis County in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] It is known to be contaminated with radioactive wastes several miles upstream of its northern mouth.
The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.The nation's longest, [13] it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, then flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km) [6] before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.
The New Madrid seismic zone (NMSZ), sometimes called the New Madrid fault line (or fault zone or fault system), is a major seismic zone and a prolific source of intraplate earthquakes (earthquakes within a tectonic plate) in the Southern and Midwestern United States, stretching to the southwest from New Madrid, Missouri. The New Madrid fault ...
The U.S. government may have to pay tens of millions of dollars — or more — to landowners along the Missouri River after a court ruled it worsened flooding there since 2007 that killed crops ...
Map of the Missouri River watershed The White River flowing into the Missouri River and coloring it with clay. Tributaries of the Missouri River, a major river in the central United States, are listed here in upstream order. These lists are arranged into river sections between cities or mouths of major tributaries for ease of navigation.
Sni-A-Bar Creek (/ ˈ s n aɪ. ə. b ɑːr /) is a stream in Jackson and Lafayette counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] It is a tributary of the Missouri River . The stream headwaters arise in southwest Lafayette County at 38°55′53″N 94°05′53″W / 38.93139°N 94.09806°W / 38.93139; -94.09806 and the stream flows ...
The Milk River Basin within the United States, including the Wild Horse Lake closed basin. Montana: 15,300 sq mi (40,000 km 2) HUC1005: 1006 Missouri–Poplar subregion: The Missouri River Basin within the United States from Fort Peck Dam to the confluence with the Yellowstone River Basin. Montana: 10,800 sq mi (28,000 km 2) HUC1006: 1007
To map the subduction zone, researchers at sea performed active source seismic imaging, a technique that sends sound to the ocean floor and then processes the echoes that return. The method is ...