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| Keywords: Mississippi Delta Lobes.jpg From http //en wikipedia org/wiki/Image Mississippi_Delta_Lobes jpg <div class key style background-color FFA447; width 1 5em; height 1 5em; border 2px solid black > </div> Salé-Cypremort 4600 years BP - <div class key style background-color FF888A; width 1 5em; height 1 5em; border 2px solid black > </div> Cocodrie 4600-3500 years BP - <div class key style background-color 59B351; width 1 5em; height 1 5em; border 2px solid black > </div> Teche 3500-2800 years BP - <div class key style background-color C0EB9B; width 1 5em; height 1 5em; border 2px solid black > </div> St Bernard 2800-1000 years BP - <div class key style background-color A2D1EB; width 1 5em; height 1 5em; border 2px solid black > </div> Lafourche 1000-300 years BP - <div class key style background-color 5083AE; width 1 5em; height 1 5em; border 2px solid black > </div> Plaquemine 750-500 years BP - <div class key style background-color FDFAB7; width 1 5em; height 1 5em; border 2px solid black > </div> Balize 550 years __NOTOC__ The lobes of the Mississippi River Delta that formed over thousands of years due to deltaic switching badJPEG Sources cite book Wicander Monroe Historical Geology - Evolution of Earth and Life through Time West Publishing Company 1993 ISBN 0314012400 http //www cox-internet com/coop/deltawebpage html cite book Kolb van Lopik Geology of the Mississippi River deltaic plain southeastern Louisiana Technical Report 3-483 Vicksburg MS U S Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station 1958 http //lmvmapping erdc usace army mil/River 20Basins/Coastal 20Plain/3-483/Vol_I/report zip PDF 6 86MB http //biology usgs gov/s+t/SNT/noframe/gc138 htm Delta Complexes of Mississippi River Deltaic Plain Frazier 1967 http //pubs usgs gov/of/2002/of02-206/env-overview/geomorphology-fig6 html Coast and river images from the http //nationalmap usgs gov/ National Map Server Lobe outlines originally traced directly from Wicander and Monroe 1993 but the shorline and river didn't match the USGS data so the outlines had to be reinterpretted slightly Final Photoshop layers can be found http //paperlined org/apps/wikipedia/src_data/Mississippi_Delta_Lobes_v2 psd here in case updates are needed Maps of the Mississippi River Geological maps of Louisiana Geology of Louisiana Maps of river deltas | ||||
