Sand as a stable and sustainable resource for nourishing the Mississippi River delta : Nature Geoscience : Nature Publishing Group

The Mississippi River carries enough sand downstream to keep Louisiana’s sinking marshes afloat for the next 600 years, according to a new study

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo2142.html

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s