Distributary Mouth Bar Formation and Channel Bifurcation in the Wax Lake Delta, Atchafalaya Bay, Louisiana
The Mississippi River has undergone at least seven cyclic avulsions during the Holocene epoch. The latest avulsion, down the Atchafalaya River into the Gulf of Mexico, has produced two bayhead deltas prograding into Atchafalaya Bay. The Wax Lake Delta, typical of other Mississippi sub-deltas, has a...
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LSU
2002
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| Online Access: | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-1112102-201553/ |