{"id":3597,"date":"2013-12-30T16:12:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-30T20:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/\/?p=3597"},"modified":"2014-03-10T17:48:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:48:50","slug":"the-mississippis-shifting-alluvial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2013\/12\/30\/the-mississippis-shifting-alluvial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mississippi shimmies across the Alluvial Plain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Krulwich for NPR writes about cartographer Harold Fisk&#8217;s visualization of the river&#8217;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>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/inside\/2010\/07\/14\/128511984\/twisted-history-the-wily-mississippi-cuts-new-paths\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/news\/2010\/08\/11\/fullriver_custom-8c53fd03da2e8c312764675a045ef56dcaa833ef-s40-c85.jpg\" width=\"484\" height=\"2841\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-textannotation-id=\"963f0ddf6adb0e68790f2e0256f71697\">This is a map of the Lower Mississippi&#8217;s evolving floodplains, lifted from cartographer Harold Fisk&#8217;s 1944 report,\u00a0<em>Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River<\/em>.<\/p>\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&#8217;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 &#8220;Fisk 44 Oversized Plates.&#8221; \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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Krulwich for NPR writes about cartographer Harold Fisk&#8217;s visualization of the river&#8217;s historical paths here. &nbsp; &nbsp; This is a map of the Lower Mississippi&#8217;s evolving floodplains, lifted from cartographer Harold Fisk&#8217;s 1944 report,\u00a0Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River. You can download the report in its entirety, including numerous &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/blog\/2013\/12\/30\/the-mississippis-shifting-alluvial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Mississippi shimmies across the Alluvial Plain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,40],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3597"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3599,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3597\/revisions\/3599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/o-matic.com\/blog-archive-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}