GEOL 1304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Yazoo River, Lake Pontchartrain, Caryopsis
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Lower berth louisiana: new orleans, the crescent city. Lower la raising < 20 feet mississippi river wrapping around it some voice of city are below sea level. St francis basin also drained swamp improvished expanse of mo ghts ooding today, irrigates cropland rice. Alluvial lands of the mississippi valley not one line but a constantly changing path only drops 300 feet over 1000 stat mi lower mississippi. River "enormous sheet of water owing across a barely sloping surface" fertile windblown soil (loess) & cancel levees along river valley easy ooding. Ms rv moved back & forth across la almost continuous levees thru la mo rv wants to start west to. Yazoo river delta oval shaped ms lowland from vicksburg down to memphis between ms and yazoo rivers known as. "the delta" but not a delta was cypress swamp, then drained for cotton plant yazoo delta became the major cotton region of south black sharecropper & renter until mechanization in 1950s.
