I just need to know about the mouth of the river, flooding and the tidal bore. plz include your sources. thx
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It is a very long river running some 4,000 miles, through Peru and the Brazilian rain forest. The Nile in Africa is longer, but the Amazon is wider, up to 6 miles wide in places.\n\nThe Amazon has by far the greatest total flow of any river, carrying more than the Mississippi, Nile, and Yangtze rivers combined — so while it may not be the longest river, it is undoubtedly the largest. Its drainage area, called the Amazon Basin, is the largest of any river system.\n\nThe quantity of fresh water released to the Atlantic Ocean is enormous: up to 300,000 m³ per second in the rainy season. Indeed, the Amazon is responsible for a fifth of the total volume of fresh water entering the oceans worldwide. \n\nIt is said that offshore of the mouth of the Amazon potable water can be drawn from the ocean while still out of sight of the coastline, and the salinity of the ocean is notably lower a hundred miles out to sea.\n\nThe main river (which is usually between one and six miles wide) is navigable for large ocean steamers to Manaus, 1,500 km (more than 900 miles) upriver from the mouth. Smaller ocean vessels of 3,000 tons[1] and 5.5 m (18 ft) draft[2] can reach as far as Iquitos, 3,600 km (2,250 miles) from the sea. \n\nThe Amazon drains an area of some 6,915,000km² (2,722,000 mile²), or some 40 percent of South America. It gathers its waters from 5 degrees north latitude to 20 degrees south latitude. \n\nIts most remote sources are found on the inter-Andean plateau, just a short distance from the Pacific Ocean; and, after a course of about 6,400 km (4,000 mi) through the interior of Peru and across Brazil, it enters the Atlantic Ocean at the equator.\n\nThe Amazon has changed its drainage several times, from westward in the early Cenozoic Era to its present eastward locomotion following the uplift of the Andes.\n\nTIDAL BORE\n\nFollowing the coast, a little to the north of Cabo do Norte, and for 160 km (100 miles) along its Guiana margin up the Amazon, is a belt of half-submerged islands and shallow sandbanks. Here the tidal phenomenon called the bore, or Pororoca, occurs, where the depths are not over 4 fathoms (7 m). \n\nThe tidal bore starts with a roar, constantly increasing, and advances at the rate of from 15 to 25 km/h (10 to 15 mph), with a breaking wall of water from 1.5 to 4 m (5 to 12 ft) high. The bore is the reason the Amazon does not have a delta; the ocean rapidly carries away the vast volume of silt carried by the Amazon, making it impossible for a delta to grow. It also has a very large tide sometimes reaching 20 feet.
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Global.\nThere is TONS of physical evidence for a world-wide flood that happened about 4400 years ago - Just like the Bible says.\nThere are several places to get more information about this, but the best website I know of is http://www.drdino.com
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For more information, the federal government offers the FloodSmart website about the program:\n\nhttp://www.floodsmart.gov/floodsmart/pages/policycoverage.jsp\n\nHope this helps!
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Sorry, some rivers run raging wild and others just kinda flow along. He's just going to have to go with the flow.\n\nTerry
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River, \nFire, \nFish,\nWind\n\n\n--- LeeeN
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look up Bay of Fundy.largest tide in the world.I think 26 ft
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http://www.thewaterpage.com/yangtze.htm\nhttp://cgee.hamline.edu/rivers/Resources/river_profiles/Yangtze.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_River
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You will have great surfing for about 6 hours.\nOk for a more serious answer. the records of the quake in the 1800s say the water ran backwards for most of a day.\nI think it would be like having a tidal surge up stream.\nhttp://newmadridonline.tripod.com/earthquakes/\n\nhttp://newmadridonline.tripod.com/earthquakes/\nhere are links to web site tht give you lots of info.
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The Three Gorges Dam is ready to hold water on June 1 as scheduled. The water is supposed to reach 135 meters in 15 days. During this period, the water rising will exert some influence on the navigation-\nThis is from a website detailing the project:\nI will say that this website is a bit of cheerleading- the seismic worries are not resolved, and cannot really be any more than those same worries in the San Andreas Fault.
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I USED to go to the RIVER and I noticed that during the WINTER, when the Hydo-electric Establishment let the river down, so's people could fix-up their piers, the bushe's that used to be under the river water would start growing.  Interesting, cause all most of SPRING and SUMMER, they were under the water!!!!  Just something to think about, can't explain how they stayed alive, take a Botanist I guess!!!! Hope this helps........
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Try the library. I checked out a book on 'Michigan canoeing' and it had a ton of maps and useful information. The guys that wrote the book actually canoed all the rivers. They also have the class types on them. You might want to see if there are any books like that for north Carolina. Good luck and i hope you have a blast!
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I have not been able to locate a book on fishing the River Tay specifically, however the book Rivers & Lochs of Scotland. might be suitable.
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Blow-Out Tide: This is a colloquial phrase used to describe an unusually low tide, resulting in large areas of exposed river bottom in nearshore shallows, marshes and tributaries. Beware of grounding your boat.
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Try doing a search on the US Geological Survey website (www.usgs.gov).  They deal alot with water resources.
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I don't know off hand where you would get maps of this river , but try out these websites for more info.\nhttp://www.epa.gov/rivers/98rivers/new.html\nhttp://ils.unc.edu/parkproject/visit/neri/home.html\nYou can also try and contact the North Carolina State Parks and ask them. They are very helpfull and usually answer you by email in a few days. As for camping in that area see below.\nhttp://ils.unc.edu/parkproject/visit/neri/do.html#camp\nThis site has a map of the canoe routes for New River.\nI hope this helps you out and enjoy NC, we did!!!
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Topography is the word you want. Combine Topography with river and throw it into a search engine and things like this Wikipedia article should fall out.  Happy hunting.
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We certainly have had our share of rain.. I've been pumping out my cellar for nearly two months!  Rt 1 was closed last week for flooding. CERT (the community emergency response team) has been called to action twice so far, just to help with flood control. \n\nNo need to worry though, all in all we're doing OK.