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.
King River (Great Southern, Western Australia) The land along the river is estimated as being 83% cleared yet the water quality is generally healthy fresh water. The salinity level of the King River at discharge is 800 mg/L. The main tributary of the King River is Mill Brook which joins the King about north-west of the Upper King Bridge. King River (Great Southern, Western Australia) The King River is a river in the Great Southern region of Western Australia. The river rises east of the town of Redmond and then flows for approximately and along with the Kalgan River drains into Oyster Harbour and finally King