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- Mississippi River Delta - WikipediaThe Mississippi River Delta is the 7th largest river delta on Earth and is an important coastal region for the United States, containing more than 2.7 million acres (4,200 sq mi; 11,000 km 2) of coastal wetlands and 37% of the estuarine marsh in the conterminous U.S. The coastal area is the nation's largest drainage basin and drains about 41% ...
- Mississippi Delta - WikipediaMississippi Delta – green line marks boundary. The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.
- The 70 Million-Year-Old History of the Mississippi RiverScientists call that gap the Mississippi Embayment, but the rest of us know it as the Mississippi Delta, the vast flood plain that stretches from southern Missouri to northern Louisiana. As...
- Mississippi River | Map, Length, History, Location ...The surface expression of the many sub-deltas is the Mississippi delta, with an area exceeding 11,000 square miles (28,500 square km). Stretching its distributaries into the gulf, the Mississippi once delivered some 220 million tons of sediment there each year, most of it as silt.
- The Delta | region, Mississippi, United States | Britannica…the great fertile crescent called the Delta is the old floodplain of the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers, comprising some 6,250 square miles (16,200 square km) of black alluvial soil several feet deep. Once subject to disastrous floods, the land is now protected by levee and reservoir systems. Read More. In Mississippi: Settlement patterns.
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