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New Orleans Geological Society

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Modern Mississippi Delta - Depositional Environments and Processes, May 23-26, 1976
Pages 103-125

Special Contribution No. II: Mississippi River Sediment Load as a Resource

Sherwood M. Gagliano, Johannes L. van Beek

ABSTRACT

The Mississippi River delivers annually some 300 million tons of sediment to Louisiana's deltaic coastal area. This sediment represents a resource of great value that is presently wasted. Value of the sediment is demonstrated by relating transported sediment to historic building of land in the form of subdelta lobes and by evaluation of sediment needs for controlled delta building. Controlled diversion of relatively small volumes of Mississippi River flow is shown to have great potential for retaining value of the sediment as a resource.


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