Randall J. Schaetzl
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Professor of Geography, Michigan State University, East Lansing. Author of numerous articles on physical geography.
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Mississippi River, the longest river of North America, draining with its major tributaries an area of approximately 1.2 million square miles (3.1 million square km), or about one-eighth of the entire continent. The Mississippi River lies entirely within the United States. Rising in Lake Itasca inβ¦
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