Big Muddy River Southern Illinois with "loess", fine grained, wind born deposits. At the edge of the floodplain, dunes, called "loess hills", formed. The Pine Hills are loess hills standing several hundred feet above the floodplain. Prior to the construction of Rend Lake, much of the ancient lake bed was swamp: a forested area that was covered by water through most of the winter, and during wet summers. When the Big Muddy flooded, the water covered the flat bottom of the ancient lake bed for miles either direction from the meandering channel. The upper reaches of the Big Muddy are near Dix, Illinois.
Muddy Run (Maurice River tributary) Known as Indian Head. Inden Head Was Named Due To The Numerous Arrow Heads Found At That Location and it Was Also Known As A Tribal Meeting Location For The Various Native American Indian Tribes MManitaco Manumuskin That Traveled These River Highways in Early America. Also Is Rainbow Lake NJ Landis Avenue Vineland To Bridgeton NJ Rt 56 Muddy Run (Maurice River tributary) Muddy Run is a tributary of the Maurice River in southwestern New Jersey in the United States. It flows in a generally southeastern direction through southern Gloucester County. Muddy Run (Maurice River) (section) Begins at Palatine Lake