Yazoo Stream

In geology and hydrology, a Yazoo stream is a tributary that runs parallel to, and within the floodplain of, a larger river for a considerable distance before finally joining it, a pattern especially pronounced when the tributary is forced to flow along the base of the main river's own natural levee. The point where the two finally meet is called a belated confluence or deferred junction. The name comes from the Yazoo, an extinct Native American tribe whose Choctaw name translates as river of death, a reference to the strong flows the Yazoo River carries at bank-full stage.