Landforms of the Lower Mississippi Valley Fine Art Print
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Landforms of the Lower Mississippi Valley Fine Art Print

Code: Landforms-of-the-lower-mississippi-valleyap

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Lower Mississippi Valley Fine Art Print

 
The Lower Mississippi collects most of the runoff of the mid-continent, emerging into the lowlands of the Mississippi embayment (of the Gulf) at Cairo Illinois. The river meandered back and forth across this Mississippi Delta for millions of years, planing flat the accumulating silt of innumerable spring floods. Flood control, land reclamation, and navigation improvement have all contributed to a greatly simplified river course. A massive weir near Angola keeps the in the established  Mississippi channel flowing through Baton Rouge and New Orleans, rather than its shorter Atchafalaya alternative. 

 

Small - Scale is 1:1.5 million or 1" = about 23 miles

Medium - Scale is 1:1 million or 1" = about 16 miles

Large - Scale is 1:750,000 or 1" = about 12 miles

 

Dimensions: All map dimensions are approximate.