Mississippi Flood Plain

Thumbnail 2 shows the sandier point bar deposits associated with the large wavelength meander scrolls, a cross section of which is shown in the idealized illustration (Sowers, 1976). Thumbnail 1 shows the organic deposits that have collected in the eutrophing oxbow lakes.

Base photo in low resolution with LINKED locations of high resolution 3D images (10s of kb)
Base photo in medium resolution to allow exploration of gray tone detail (100s of kb)
Three dimensional anaglyph photo at 1200 dpi ( MBs JPEG file that will expand to 10s of MB)

Left anaglyph
Right anaglyph

Idealized illustrations of deposit (elevation, plan, and/or oblique view)
Typical cross section
Example of typical quantitative characterization data

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