Author: David T. DockeryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Windows Into Mississippi's Geologic Past
Author: David T. DockeryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Mississippi Geology
Author: The Mississippi Encyclopedia
Author: Ted OwnbyPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496811593
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1461
Book Description
Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.
Beyond Control
Author: James F. Barnett Jr.Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149681116X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the main structure near Baton Rouge and enlarged a pre-existing football-field-size crater. That night the Mississippi River nearly changed its course for a shorter and steeper path to the sea. Such a map-changing reconfiguration of the country’s largest river would bear national significance as well as disastrous consequences for New Orleans and towns like Morgan City, at the mouth of the Atchafalaya River. Since 1973, the US Army Corps of Engineers Control Complex at Old River has kept the Mississippi from jumping out of its historic channel and plunging through the Atchafalaya Basin to the Gulf of Mexico. Beyond Control traces the history of this phenomenon, beginning with a major channel shift around 3,000 years ago. By the time European colonists began to explore the Lower Mississippi Valley, a unique confluence of waterways had formed where the Red River joined the Mississippi, and the Atchafalaya River flowed out into the Atchafalaya Basin. A series of human alterations to this potentially volatile web of rivers, starting with a bend cutoff in 1831 by Captain Henry Miller Shreve, set the forces in motion for the Mississippi’s move into the Atchafalaya Basin. Told against the backdrop of the Lower Mississippi River’s impending diversion, the book’s chapters chronicle historic floods, rising flood crests, a changing strategy for flood protection, and competing interests in the management of the Old River outlet. Beyond Control is both a history and a close look at an inexorable, living process happening now in the twenty-first century.
Geomorphology and Quaternary Geologic History of the Lower Mississippi Valley
Author: Roger T. SaucierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Southeast Supply Header Project
Author: The State Geologist's Journal
Author: History of the Upper Mississippi Valley. Containing the Geology of the Upper Mississippi and Saint Louis Valleys
Author: Edward Duffield NeillPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385467055
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Geology of the Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-lead District
Author: Allen Van HeylPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Geological Investigation of Faulting in the Lower Mississippi Valley
Author: E. L. KrinitzskyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Faults (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description