Confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers.

The Mississippi must be the poopy one...

The pic looks like the intersection of 12 mile Bayou and the Red River on a much larger scale.

Interesting how much more sediment one has than the other...I wonder if that is due to one flowing more swiftly than the other or more due to the terrain one flows through.

You are correct, sir. I cheated by looking at a map.

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Ohio is actually the larger river at the confluence

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Could be. I don't know. Perhaps it is the angle of the photograph.

I have crossed those two bridges at least 250 times in my life and at that point by my naked eye observation they both seemed to be about the same distance across.

I should have added in my original post that my grandfather cut the ribbon on the Missouri side of the Mississippi River bridge. That was 80 or so years ago.

Also the Missouri and the Mississippi but the are smaller up there.

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Not sure what a "super river"

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A term I just made up on the fly this morning. It is one of the largest rivers in the world.

Okay. The Mississippi is 15th largest in the world by discharge, second longest in the United States after the Missouri, 4th largest in world by drainage basin.

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At what river stage ?

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Average discharge.

There are a lot of rivers that dump into the MS. Lot you don't think of /know of (well at least I didn't know of them)

The Illinois, Missouri, Ohio/TN all hit the MS within less than 100 miles (This is a swag).