This is my first post here at Pathological Geomorphology and I bring you some imagery from my home state of Louisiana.
Before the mighty Mississippi River was confined to its current course via the construction of artificial levees and control structures, the large river often overflowed its natural levees leaving behind overbank deposits of mostly silt, clay and mud. Today, the legacy of natural levee building processes is manifested in the form of land developed and settled by the early wave of European settlers. The French "long-lot" system was systematically employed, which granted river access to the greatest number of people, and is clearly still visible today. No new groundbreaking observations here, but certainly spectacular in map view.
The image above is taken from a reach adjacent to the Mississippi between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.
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