When presented as a highly vertically exaggerated stream profile, shown below, the short but extremely steep stretch of river looks almost like a dam, and absolutely dwarfs every steep zone in the neighboring Chattooga River, a slightly larger river which the Tallulah meets just below its gorge. As a result, much of the steepening related to the capture event is still “stuck” at the upper end of Tallulah Gorge, where the river is working hard to cut through the quartzite to allow the Tallulah to better match the Chattooga’s channel elevation.