The Mississippi shimmies across the Alluvial Plain

1.02022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow's Research Bloghttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022Marinahttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022/blog/author/admin/The Mississippi shimmies across the Alluvial PlainRobert 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>. <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> This is a map of the Lower Mississippi's evolving floodplains, lifted from cartographer Harold Fisk's 1944 report, Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River. You can download the report in its entirety, including numerous maps like this one, from the <a href="http://lmvmapping.erdc.usace.army.mil/index.htm" target="_blank">U.S. Army Corps of Engineers web site</a> (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." (thanks <a href="http://io9.com/5847449/a-gorgeous-map-of-the-many-twisting-paths-taken-by-the-mississippi-river" target="_blank">io9</a>)rich