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Continental Slope: Frontier of the 80's

GCAGS 501SV

Continental Slope: Frontier of the 80's. Field Trip Guide. R. E. Emmer and J. C. Holmes, Jr., field trip committee. 49 p., 1986. Print

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GCAGS 501SV. Continental Slope: Frontier of the 80's. Field Trip Guide. R. E. Emmer and J. C. Holmes, Jr., field trip committee. Prepared for the 36th Annual Convention of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies. 49 p., 1986.


CONTENTS
Four chapters:
1. Engineering geology and cultural history of the Atchafalaya River Basin, by J. D. Martinez and W. G. Haag
2. Transgressive sands of the Mississippi River delta plain: the Bayou Lafourche barrier shorelines, by Shea Penland and J. R. Suter
3. The deltaic plain: Mississippi Delta complex--backswamp and floating marsh environments, by Harry Roberts
4. Plaquemine point bar, Mississippi River, by James Coleman



Keywords: Atchafalaya River Basin, backswamp. Bayou Lafourche, delta plain, engineering geology, field trips, guidebooks, Louisiana, marsh, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi River, Plaquemine point bar

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