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Meander scars near Swiftown, Mississippi, on the Mississippi River Alluvial Plain. These are over 40 miles east of the Mississippi River itself.
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December, 2019 issue of National Geographic Magazine.
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Oxbow lakes, scroll bars, and levees along the Mississippi River on the border of Arkansas and Mississippi.
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Comparison of Plate 7 from Harold Fisk's 1944 report "The Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River" with a modern-day lidar derived image of the same area.
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Wax Lake Delta, Louisiana. This growing delta on the Gulf of Mexico is the result of a man-made channel that
drains part of the Atchafalaya River, a distributary of the Mississippi River.
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New Orleans, Louisiana. This image highlights the fact that the Mississippi River is at a higher elevation than many parts of the surrounding city.. The levees glow bright white along the river. Dark colors=lower elevations, light colors=higher elevations.
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Flooded fields and meander scars near Moorhead, Mississippi.
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The community of Hollandale, Mississippi along Deer Creek on the Mississippi River Delta.
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A landscape shaped by water in Chicot County, Arkansas, just to the west of the Mississippi River—Bayou Macon is on the left and US Highway 65 cuts across the image diagonally.
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Meander scars along the Saint Francis River in Arkansas.
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The Mississippi River from Baton Rouge, LA to St James, LA displaying about ten meters of elevation range.