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FIGURE 7.33
LANDSAT image of portion of the Mississippi River delta, including New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain.
The upland soils are sands and clays of the coastal plain. (
Scale 1:1.000.000. Original image by NASA,
reproduction by USCS. EROS Data Center
.)
90
°
89
°
92
°
91
°
Terrace
Prairie
Baton
rouge
Area of Fig. 7.33 (LANDSAT image)
2
New
Orleans
30
°
4
3
6
5
1
29
°
7
Gulf of Mexico
N
1
Sale cypremort
Cocodrie
Teche
5
6
7
Lafourche
Plaquemine
Balize
0
30
Miles
After Kolb & Van Lopik, 1958
2
3
St. Bernard
4
Carto sect.,CSI, LSU
FIGURE 7.34
Recent delta lobes of the Mississippi River. (From Coleman, J. M.,
Encyclopedia of Geomorphology
, R. W.
Fairbridge, Ed., Dowden Hutchinson & Ross Publ., Stroudsburg, PA, 1968, pp. 255-260. With permission.)
