Streams that run parallel to larger, more prominent channels are called yazoo streams. Typically, they occur on the floodplains of sediments once laid down by the larger stream. If Mother Nature could talk, she might say to the larger stream, “Now what am I going to do with all this flat land you made in your meanderings and floodings?” Then Mother Nature would emplace a smaller stream to occupy the landscape. She abhors a vacuum, doesn’t she?
Two streams can’t occupy the same channel. Together they would just make a bigger river. Yazoos are separate streams that use the landscape the larger stream created. They imitate on a smaller scale and rely on what the main river formed.
“No, I don’t want to hear it. Tell someone else if you look around to see that in your personal landscape you have modeled the flow of your life on someone else’s.”
Big rivers make the landscapes that yazoos cross.
Two streams can’t occupy the same channel. Together they would just make a bigger river. Yazoos are separate streams that use the landscape the larger stream created. They imitate on a smaller scale and rely on what the main river formed.
“No, I don’t want to hear it. Tell someone else if you look around to see that in your personal landscape you have modeled the flow of your life on someone else’s.”
Big rivers make the landscapes that yazoos cross.
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