Historical Subsidence and Wetland Loss in the Mississippi Delta Plain - Subsidence and Fault Activation Related to Fluid Energy Production, Gulf Coast Basin Project

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Historical Subsidence and Wetland Loss in the Mississippi Delta Plain

by Morton, Robert A.; Bernier, Julie C.; Barras, John A.; and Ferina, Nicholas F.

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"Historical Subsidence and Wetland Loss in the Mississippi Delta Plain" appeared as an article in Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions (vol. 55, 2005). The article is a 17-page discussion of the timing and processes involved in subsidence and wetland loss in coastal Louisiana.

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