The Mississippi River 密西西比河
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Life on the Mississippi
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man
Music
• The song "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin • A set of movements for symphony orchestra entitled "Mississippi Suite" by Ferde Grofé • "Ol' Man River"—The central musical piece of the stage and movie musical Show Boat's central musical piece， composed by • Musical “Big River” • The Johnny Cash song "Big River" • "Roll On Mississippi" & "Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town" • Moon River
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Flood :Mississippi at its worst
1 Flood of March 1543 2 Flood of 1734-35 3 Flood of 1788 4 Flood of 1809 5 Flood of 1825 6 Great Flood of 1844 7 Great Flood of 1851 8 Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 9 Great Flood of 1937 10 Flood of 1945 11 Mississippi Flood of 1973 12 Flood of 1975 13 Flood of 1979 14 Lower Mississippi Flood of 1983 15 Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 16 Flood of 2002 17 Flood of 2008 18 Great Mississippi Flood of 2011
• Country United States • States Minnesota,Wisconsin,Iowa,Illinois,Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana
• the 4th longest
river in the world
That's all Thank you
gichi-ziibi, meaning "Big River"
• Nickname The Father of Waters The Big Muddy Big River The Gathering of Waters Body of a Nation The Mighty Mississippi
Contents
• 1 Name • 2 Geography • 3 History • 4 Navigation & Flood control • 5 In popular culture
Name
• Name origin:
Ojibwe word(印第安人阿耳冈昆族语言)
misi-ziibi, meaning "Great River",
(after the Nile, Amazon River, Yangtze River) • triangular drainage area —40% of the country(U.S.) • an important transportation artery of North America.
Outflow
• an annual average rate of between 200 and 700 thousand cubic feet per second (7,000–20,000 m³ /s) • the 5th largest river in the world by volume (after the Amazon River, Congo River,Rio Madeira, Yangtze River） • On average, the Mississippi has only 8% the flow of the Amazon River.
• 1830 – 1850: the golden age of steamboats • 1830: Federal government Navigation lock(船闸) & canal • 1848: the Illinois & Michigan Canal —connection of the Mississippi & the Five Lakes • 1913: the Keokuk dam • 1917: Lock and Dam No. 1 • 1930: Lock and Dam No. 2 • 1930s: Twenty-three new locks and dams were built on the upper Mississippi in addition to the three already in existence.
Old Man River
The Great River
Old Blue
Moon River
Geography
Basic Information
• Source Lake Itasca(艾塔斯卡湖) • Mouth Gulf of Mexico(墨西哥湾)
• Length
2,348 mi / 6,020 km
• European exploration • Colonization
• Steamboat era
• Civil War
Navigation & Flood control
• The Mississippi River is the longest and most economically important waterway in the United States. • That industry ships corn, soybeans, and wheat from farms in the Midwest to destinations around the globe. Roughly 60 percent of all grain exported from the United States travels on barges along this waterway. Any disruption has a ripple effect. • "There's a lot of money at stake for these farmers, and there's other commodities that are coming down the river as well, so it's not just grain but it's also chemicals are coming down the river, coal is coming down the river, various things like that," noted Jasen Brown, a Hydraulic Engineer with the Army Corps.
River Course
• the Upper Mississippi From its origin at Lake Itasca to St. Louis, Missour • the Middle Mississippi From St. Louis to the Ohio River confluence • the Lower Mississippi from its confluence（合 流点） with the Ohio River to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico
In popular culture
Literature
• William Faulkner • Mark Twain • Herman Melville
• William Faulkner
The Bear
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1949
Байду номын сангаас
• Mark Twain
History
• Native Americans
Modern American Indian nations inhabiting the Mississippi basin include Cheyenne, Sioux, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Fox, Kickapoo, Tamaroa, Moingwena, Quapaw and Chickasaw.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Herman Melville
The Confidence-Man
Music
• The song "When the Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin • A set of movements for symphony orchestra entitled "Mississippi Suite" by Ferde Grofé • "Ol' Man River"—The central musical piece of the stage and movie musical Show Boat's central musical piece， composed by • Musical “Big River” • The Johnny Cash song "Big River" • "Roll On Mississippi" & "Mississippi Cotton Picking Delta Town" • Moon River
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Flood :Mississippi at its worst
1 Flood of March 1543 2 Flood of 1734-35 3 Flood of 1788 4 Flood of 1809 5 Flood of 1825 6 Great Flood of 1844 7 Great Flood of 1851 8 Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 9 Great Flood of 1937 10 Flood of 1945 11 Mississippi Flood of 1973 12 Flood of 1975 13 Flood of 1979 14 Lower Mississippi Flood of 1983 15 Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood of 1993 16 Flood of 2002 17 Flood of 2008 18 Great Mississippi Flood of 2011
• Country United States • States Minnesota,Wisconsin,Iowa,Illinois,Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana
• the 4th longest
river in the world
That's all Thank you
gichi-ziibi, meaning "Big River"
• Nickname The Father of Waters The Big Muddy Big River The Gathering of Waters Body of a Nation The Mighty Mississippi
Contents
• 1 Name • 2 Geography • 3 History • 4 Navigation & Flood control • 5 In popular culture
Name
• Name origin:
Ojibwe word(印第安人阿耳冈昆族语言)
misi-ziibi, meaning "Great River",
(after the Nile, Amazon River, Yangtze River) • triangular drainage area —40% of the country(U.S.) • an important transportation artery of North America.
Outflow
• an annual average rate of between 200 and 700 thousand cubic feet per second (7,000–20,000 m³ /s) • the 5th largest river in the world by volume (after the Amazon River, Congo River,Rio Madeira, Yangtze River） • On average, the Mississippi has only 8% the flow of the Amazon River.
• 1830 – 1850: the golden age of steamboats • 1830: Federal government Navigation lock(船闸) & canal • 1848: the Illinois & Michigan Canal —connection of the Mississippi & the Five Lakes • 1913: the Keokuk dam • 1917: Lock and Dam No. 1 • 1930: Lock and Dam No. 2 • 1930s: Twenty-three new locks and dams were built on the upper Mississippi in addition to the three already in existence.
Old Man River
The Great River
Old Blue
Moon River
Geography
Basic Information
• Source Lake Itasca(艾塔斯卡湖) • Mouth Gulf of Mexico(墨西哥湾)
• Length
2,348 mi / 6,020 km
• European exploration • Colonization
• Steamboat era
• Civil War
Navigation & Flood control
• The Mississippi River is the longest and most economically important waterway in the United States. • That industry ships corn, soybeans, and wheat from farms in the Midwest to destinations around the globe. Roughly 60 percent of all grain exported from the United States travels on barges along this waterway. Any disruption has a ripple effect. • "There's a lot of money at stake for these farmers, and there's other commodities that are coming down the river as well, so it's not just grain but it's also chemicals are coming down the river, coal is coming down the river, various things like that," noted Jasen Brown, a Hydraulic Engineer with the Army Corps.
River Course
• the Upper Mississippi From its origin at Lake Itasca to St. Louis, Missour • the Middle Mississippi From St. Louis to the Ohio River confluence • the Lower Mississippi from its confluence（合 流点） with the Ohio River to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico
In popular culture
Literature
• William Faulkner • Mark Twain • Herman Melville
• William Faulkner
The Bear
Nobel Prize for Literature, 1949
Байду номын сангаас
• Mark Twain
History
• Native Americans
Modern American Indian nations inhabiting the Mississippi basin include Cheyenne, Sioux, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Fox, Kickapoo, Tamaroa, Moingwena, Quapaw and Chickasaw.