A lot is deposited off the continental shelf, benefiting no one, due to the channeling of the River and the levees.
The old deposits are retracting and compacting now that the ice from the last ice age has melted which lifts the weight off the land where it had been pooching it out which lowers land levels. Jean Lafitte has to leave areas of the Gulf Coast by Grand Isle in 1820 due to land sinking then. There were no oil canals then, grasshopper.
Agent, a little internet research would reveal to you that the gas/oil channels and the levies erected in the last century have altered the flow of the Mississippi so dramatically that the delta has been eroded. the delta would still be intact if we hadn’t messed things up so badly.
So what you are saying is that all the silt/soil of the Mississippi are disappearing or they are dredging it to build up the levees?????? None of it makes it down to the Gulf?
I wonder what happened to all that soil deposited by the Mississippi River in the delta over the eons.
A lot is deposited off the continental shelf, benefiting no one, due to the channeling of the River and the levees.
The old deposits are retracting and compacting now that the ice from the last ice age has melted which lifts the weight off the land where it had been pooching it out which lowers land levels. Jean Lafitte has to leave areas of the Gulf Coast by Grand Isle in 1820 due to land sinking then. There were no oil canals then, grasshopper.
Agent, a little internet research would reveal to you that the gas/oil channels and the levies erected in the last century have altered the flow of the Mississippi so dramatically that the delta has been eroded. the delta would still be intact if we hadn’t messed things up so badly.
So what you are saying is that all the silt/soil of the Mississippi are disappearing or they are dredging it to build up the levees?????? None of it makes it down to the Gulf?