Missouri Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Topography=== [[File:US mo physiographic map.jpg|thumb|left|A physiographic map of Missouri]] North of, and in some cases just south of, the Missouri River lie the Northern Plains that stretch into Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. Here, rolling hills remain from the [[glaciation]] that once extended from the Canadian Shield to the Missouri River. Missouri has many large river bluffs along the Mississippi, Missouri, and [[Meramec River]]s. Southern Missouri rises to the [[Ozark Mountains]], a [[dissected plateau]] surrounding the [[Precambrian]] [[igneous]] [[St. Francois Mountains]]. This region also hosts [[karst topography]] characterized by high limestone content with the formation of sinkholes and caves.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mostateparks.com/karst.htm |title=Missouri's Karst Wonderland—Missouri State Parks and Historic Sites, DNR |publisher=Mostateparks.com |date=June 6, 2008 |access-date=February 20, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100228195535/http://www.mostateparks.com/karst.htm |archive-date=February 28, 2010 }}</ref> [[File:Bell Mountain.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.6|The [[Bell Mountain Wilderness]] of southern Missouri's [[Mark Twain National Forest]]]] The southeastern part of the state is known as the [[Missouri Bootheel]] region, which is part of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain or [[Mississippi embayment]]. This region is the lowest, flattest, warmest, and wettest part of the state. It is also among the poorest, as the economy there is mostly agricultural.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ded.mo.gov/researchandplanning/community/misc/sa-1102-1.stm |title=Income Inequality in Missouri |publisher=Ded.mo.gov |date=December 21, 2001 |access-date=July 31, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100107144051/http://ded.mo.gov/researchandplanning/community/misc/sa-1102-1.stm |archive-date=January 7, 2010 }}</ref> It is also the most fertile, with cotton and rice crops predominant. The Bootheel was the epicenter of the four [[1811–12 New Madrid earthquakes|New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811 and 1812]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page