{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"2022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow&#039;s Research Blog","provider_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022","author_name":"Marina","author_url":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/author\/admin\/","title":"The Mississippi shimmies across the Alluvial Plain","html":"Robert Krulwich for NPR writes about cartographer Harold Fisk's visualization of the river's historical paths <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/inside\/2010\/07\/14\/128511984\/twisted-history-the-wily-mississippi-cuts-new-paths\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/inside\/2010\/07\/14\/128511984\/twisted-history-the-wily-mississippi-cuts-new-paths\"><img class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/news\/2010\/08\/11\/fullriver_custom-8c53fd03da2e8c312764675a045ef56dcaa833ef-s40-c85.jpg\" width=\"484\" height=\"2841\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"963f0ddf6adb0e68790f2e0256f71697\">This is a map of the Lower Mississippi's evolving floodplains, lifted from cartographer Harold Fisk's 1944 report,\u00a0<em>Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"7093d31c10c312348de248ac3467d54e\">You can download the report in its entirety, including numerous maps like this one, from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lmvmapping.erdc.usace.army.mil\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Army Corps of Engineers web site<\/a>\u00a0(if you're looking for maps like the one up top, you want to click the link on the lefthand side of the USACE website that says \"Fisk 44 Oversized Plates.\" \u00a0(thanks <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5847449\/a-gorgeous-map-of-the-many-twisting-paths-taken-by-the-mississippi-river\" target=\"_blank\">io9<\/a>)<\/p>","type":"rich"}