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	Salé-Cypremort	4600 years BP
	Cocodrie	4600-3500 years BP
	Teche	3500-2800 years BP
	St. Bernard	2800-1000 years BP
	Lafourche	1000-300 years BP
	Plaquemine	750-500 years BP
	Balize	550 years

[edit] Description

The lobes of the Mississippi River Delta that formed over thousands of years due to deltaic switching.

[edit] Sources

Wicander,Monroe (1993). Historical Geology - Evolution of Earth and Life through Time. West Publishing Company. ISBN 0314012400. [1]
Kolb,van Lopik (1958). Geology of the Mississippi River deltaic plain, southeastern Louisiana. Technical Report 3-483. Vicksburg, MS: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station. (PDF, 6.86MB) [2]
Delta Complexes of Mississippi River Deltaic Plain, Frazier, 1967 [3]

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Coast and river images from the 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 here, in case updates are needed.

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Mississippi River Delta

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(del) (cur) 20:59, 10 September 2005 . . Interiot (Talk | contribs) . . 800×484 (74,841 bytes) (Pronounced river, 800-width size)
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