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In this episode, Dean Klinkenberg interviews Dr. Roy Van Arsdale about the geologic history and future of the Mississippi River.

Send us Fan Mail How do you tell the story of a river that's tens of millions of years in the making? In Episode 79, I sit down with Dr. Roy Van Arsdale, Professor Emeritus at the University of Memphis, to trace the deep geologic history of the Mississippi River—and it's a more dynamic ride than you might expect. We go back 100 million years, to a time when rivers in North America generally flowed north and west, then follow the dramatic forces that reversed the continent's plumbing, includin...

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