Beyond Control: The Mississippi River's New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico
(Part of the America's Third Coast Series Series)
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Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the main structure near Baton Rouge and enlarged a pre-existing football-field-size crater. That night the Mississippi River nearly changed its course for a shorter and steeper path to the sea. Such a map-changing reconfiguration of the country's...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1496811135
ISBN13:9781496811134
Release Date:March 2017
Publisher:University Press of Mississippi
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"
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