2019 Mississippi River

[LaCajunsFan]

This all reminds me of my 7th grade science class: we went outside (on a beautiful spring day) on the football field and had big blue trays of sand and that we could set at different angles. There was a hose at the top of the trays that let us also control the flow of water.

From there we were able to create mini 'rivers' and watch how the courses changed, forming ox-bow rivers etc. I remember realizing that what had happened at False river, where friends had a camp that we'd go skiing and hang out.

It was a great lesson and one that has stuck with me all these years.

[BeauCajun]

This is a photograph of the wood chips that were recovered from 123 feet to 154'. They are very light and the strands are very flexible.

We found similar wood chips when the water well folks dug my well at home. I think the chips were found around 150' down. I was amazed to find them. I'm about 200' off the bank of the Vermilion in Vermilion Parish.

[HelmutVII]

The Chicot aquifer runs all the way to the GOM, right? About what depths are we talking about for this Aquifer?

That's correct. That is why the Chicot Aquifer is brackish south of Abbevile. The Chicot Aquifer has variable depth and thickness. In some places it is divided into the upper chicot and lower chicot with a clay break between. You can reach a sand as high as 35 feet deep but it is usually not water bearing. It can be almost 500 feet deep and 400 feet thick in some parts. I just completed a well near Loureauville that was almost 500 feet deep with a static water level of 11.0 feet. Almost an Artisian well. It produces a boat load of water.

[HelmutVII]

We found similar wood chips when the water well folks dug my well at home. I think the chips were found around 150' down. I was amazed to find them. I'm about 200' off the bank of the Vermilion in Vermilion Parish.

North of Abbevile I'm thinking or it would be salt water that deep.

[CajunAmos]

That's correct. That is why the Chicot Aquifer is brackish south of Abbevile. The Chicot Aquifer has variable depth and thickness. In some places it is divided into the upper chicot and lower chicot with a clay break between. You can reach a sand as high as 35 feet deep but it is usually not water bearing. It can be almost 500 feet deep and 400 feet thick in some parts. I just completed a well near Loureauville that was almost 500 feet deep with a static water level of 11.0 feet. Almost an Artisian well. It produces a boat load of water.

I'm on a east/west ridge (24' elevation) between Milton & Youngsville.

[BeauCajun]

North of Abbevile I'm thinking or it would be salt water that deep.

That is correct. About 7 or so miles north at Woodlawn.

[Ragin4U]

Amazing. Could a study determine the type of wood?

(Also, Antarctica is rising at the rate of 1.6 inches a year. Due to ice melt some say.)

Back on topic: For a tree to survive the decaying process, whether upright or in a water rush current heap. Don't you think some sort of sediment protection would be involved. Probably followed by immense pressure.

I can't see tree matter surviving (not decaying) in ether manner with a slow sinking process.

Isostatic rebound.

[Ragin4U]

CharlieK--Trying to send you a pm. Clean your box bro

[CharlieK]

CharlieK--Trying to send you a pm. Clean your box bro

Done.

[ZoomZoom]

Well, here is today's nugget for the global warming crowd to fret about.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...-trash/584131/