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	Designing A Future For Arkansas Wildlife
		The Mississippi Alluvial Plain (73) extends along the Mississippi River from the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers southward to the Gulf of Mexico; temperatures and annual average precipitation increase toward the south.
		The Mississippi Alluvial Plain (73) has been widely cleared and drained for cultivation; this widespread loss or degradation of forest and wetland habitat has impacted wildlife and reduced bird populations.
		Between the levees that parallel the Mississippi River is a corridor known as the" batture lands".
	www.wildlifearkansas.com /plain.html (503 words)

	USGS - NAWQA - Water Quality in the Mississippi Embayment - Introduction
		The Mississippi Alluvial Plain is in the northern part of the Mississippi Embayment, a geologic structural trough in which the underlying crust of the Earth forms a deep valley.
		The natural regional flow of ground water in the Mississippi Embayment in the Tertiary aquifers is from the outcrop areas in the upper Gulf Coastal Plain, laterally along the aquifers toward the embayment axis, and then upward through overlying confining units and aquifers to the surface of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain (Grubb, 1986; Ackerman, 1989).
		The Mississippi River confining unit is composed of the upper silt and clay of the Quaternary alluvium, whereas the Mississippi River alluvial aquifer is composed of the lower sand and gravel of the Quaternary alluvium (Boswell and others, 1968; Ackerman, 1989).
	pubs.usgs.gov /circ/circ1208/introduction.htm (1944 words)

	Louisiana - ninemsn Encarta
		Louisiana, one of the southern states of the United States, bordered on the north by Arkansas; on the east by Mississippi; on the south by the Gulf of Mexico; and on the west by Texas.
		The plains slope gently downward from north to south; the coast is characterized by ridges of sand known as barrier beaches.
		The Mississippi River and its major tributaries, which include the Red, Ouachita, and Atchafalaya rivers, have deposited so much material that their beds are now higher than much of the surrounding land.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560280/louisiana.html (581 words)

	Mississippi - MSN Encarta
		Mississippi ranks 32nd among the states in size, with a total area of 125,433 sq km (48,430 sq mi), including 2,033 sq km (785 sq mi) of inland water and 1,528 sq km (590 sq mi) of coastal waters over which it has jurisdiction.
		Mississippi lies wholly within the Gulf Coastal Plain, which is one of the principal natural regions, or physiographic provinces, of the southern United States (see Coastal Plain).
		Forming the western edge of the plain are the Bluff Hills, a belt of low hills from 8 to 24 km (5 to 15 mi) wide that extends the entire length of the state.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761575599/Mississippi.html (1215 words)

	US Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station, Geotechical Laboratory, Geotechnical, Earthquake, and and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This map (left) is a portion of one of a series of maps of recent deposits of the Mississippi alluvial valley.
		The Mississippi alluvial plain represents the valley of the Mississippi River and its tributaries from the vicinity of Cairo, Illinois to the Louisiana Gulf Coast.
		The alluvial plain consists of Pleistocene (Ice Age) and recent deposits of clay, silt, sand, and gravel that were laid down by the Mississippi River as it meandered across this broad floodplain.
	geoscience.wes.army.mil /FS_VicksburgGeology.html (871 words)

	Mississippi Embayment
		Map of the important shoreline positions of the Gulf and Atlantic coastlines since the Late Cretaceous.
		The deposits of Quaternary age blanket the Coastal Plain as sand, gravel, and clay occurring mostly as alluvial and terrace deposits.
		The Mississippi River basin was a massive meltwater drainage channel during the Pleistocene.
	www.emporia.edu /earthsci/student/salley3 (1187 words)

	Mississippi Information, Climate, History, Geography, ETC.
		Mississippi, one of the East South Central states of the United States, bordered on the north by Tennessee, on the east by Alabama, on the south by the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana, and on the west by Louisiana and Arkansas.
		Mississippi, with an area of 125,443 sq km (48,434 sq mi), is the 32d largest state in the U.S.; 5.5% of its land area is owned by the federal government.
		Mississippi is one of the least urbanized states in the nation; in 1990 about 47% of all Mississippians lived in areas defined as urban, and the rest lived in rural areas.
	valuecom.com /mississippi/info.htm (3159 words)

	World Almanac for Kids
		MISSISSIPPI, one of the East South Central states of the U.S., bordered on the N by Tennessee, on the E by Alabama, on the S by the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana, and on the W by Louisiana and Arkansas.
		Mississippi is one of the least urbanized states in the nation; in 1990 about 47% of all Mississipians lived in areas defined as urban, and the rest lived in rural areas.
		Mississippi resisted desegregation, and although its incidence of crime is traditionally low, the state experienced violent racial unrest in the 1960s.
	www.worldalmanacforkids.com /explore/states/mississippi.html (3418 words)

	Moving to Mississippi
		Mississippi is a predominantly rural state with only 47 percent of the population living in urban areas in 1990, one of the lowest rates in the nation.
		Mississippi College, at Clinton, was founded in 1826 as Hampstead Academy and is the oldest institution of higher education still in operation in Mississippi.
		Mississippi's per-capita income rose from $830 (50 percent of the national average) in 1951 to $5,529 (71 percent of the national average) in 1977.
	www.abcmovex.com /states/MISSISSIPPI.html (12921 words)

	Mississippi Alluvial Plain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Mississippi River Alluvial Plain, the largest ecoregion in Louisiana, covers some 12,350 square miles (31,990 square kilometres) of the state.
		The northern portion in eastern Arkansas, southeastern Missouri, westernmost Tennessee, westernmost Kentucky and southern Illinois is referred to as the Mississippi embayment.
		In Louisiana, it includes all of the historic Mississippi River floodplain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mississippi_Alluvial_Plain (130 words)

	Alluvial Plain - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Alluvial Plain, expanse of flat land on either side of a river where sediment has been deposited.
		Alluvial plains are the most extensive depositional plains.
		The Mississippi Alluvial Plain in part straddles the Mississippi River.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Alluvial_Plain.html (103 words)

	Mississippi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Mississippi Alluvial Plain, or Yazoo Basin, is one of the world's most fertile regions, famous for its cotton; it covers the western edge of the state which is commonly called the Delta.
		The East Gulf Coastal Plain, a hilly region that covers most of the state, extending the length of Mississippi east of the Alluvial Plain, includes the Black Belt grassy prairie which is ideal for livestock.
		Important rivers, in addition to the Mississippi, are the Yazoo, Sunflower, Coldwater, and Tallahatchie in the west and north; Pearl, Pascagoula, and Tombigbee to the east; the Tennessee in the northeast.
	www.prorentusa.com /mississippi.htm (627 words)

	Arkansas Geography - NETSTATE
		Missouri, Tennessee, and Mississippi border Arkansas on the east.
		Mississippi Alluvial Plain: The Mississippi River forms most of the eastern border of Arkansas between Tennessee and Louisiana.
		The Mississippi Alluvial Plain is sometimes referred to as the Delta region and is covered with rich soil carried by the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
	www.netstate.com /states/geography/ar_geography.htm (897 words)

	West Tennessee
		The Mississippi Alluvial Plain is the river floodplain composed of unconsolidated sediment from as far away as the eastern slopes of the Rockies to the western slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
		The Coastal Plain is a gentle sloping plateau that begins where the Chickasaw Bluffs rise above the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and extends to the West Tennessee Uplands.
		The West Tennessee Uplands is formed from the sand, silt, and clay deposits that underlay the Mississippi Alluvial Plain and the Coastal Plain.
	www.tneppc.org /Landscaping/West_Tennessee.htm (345 words)

	Information And Resources About Mississippi
		Mississippi is bordered on the north by the state of Tennessee; on the east by Alabama, on the south by Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico; and on the west by Louisiana and Arkansas (across the Mississippi River).Major rivers include Mississippi River, Big Black River, Pearl River, Yazoo River, Pascagoula River, and Tombigbee River.
		Mississippi is one of the most conservative states in the US, and with religion often playing a large role in citizens' political views.
		In 2004, Mississippi was ranked last among the fifty states in academic achievement by the American Legislative Exchange Council's Report Card on Education, with the lowest average ACT scores and spending per pupil in the nation.
	www.seegeorgiarealestate.com /Mississippi.htm (3066 words)

	Mississippi, MS - Florists and Flower Shops : Sitemap (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mississippi is bordered on the north by the state of Tennessee; on the east by Alabama, on the south by Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico; and on the west by Louisiana and Arkansas (across the Mississippi River).
		Most of Mississippi is part of the East Gulf Coastal Plain, and the rest of the state is made up of a section of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain.
		The East Gulf Coastal Plain is generally composed of low hills, such as the Pine Hills in the south and the North Central Hills.
	afloristb.com /ms (115 words)

	Alluvial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alluvial aquifers are those that were deposited by a stream or other body of running water in a streambed, on a flood plain, on a delta, or at the base
		...flat alluvial plain of the Mississippi River Embayment, its tributaries to the...
		NON-ALLUVIAL WETLANDS OF THE COASTAL PLAIN AND PIEDMONT.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/environment/Alluvial.html (385 words)

	Re: Mississippi Land Regions
		The Mississippi Alluvial Plain runs along the entire western edge of the state and consists of fertile lowlands.
		The Mississippi Alluvial Plain is famous for its cotton and soybean crops.
		The East Gulf Coastal Plain covers the rest of the state east of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain.
	www.netstate.com /cgi-netstate/webbbs/ms_forum/ms_forum.cgi?read=40 (350 words)

	The Mississippi River Alluvial Plain
		Generalized Geologic Map of the Conterminous United States
		A conspicuous band of Quaternary (gray) deposits characterize the broad, flat alluvial plain of the Mississippi River Embayment, its tributaries to the west, and coastal Texas.
		The rocks in the alluvial plain owe their origin to extensive and accelerated deposition by streams during interglacial phases of the Pleistocene, followed by erosion of these materials by Holocene river systems, over the last 1-2 million years.
	www.nationalatlas.gov /articles/geology/features/alluvialplain.html (113 words)

	Mississippi Vacation Rentals: Home House & Cabin Rental, Cottage Canada - USA
		The plain varies in width from about 65 mi near Greenville to less than 1 mi south of Natchez.
		The East Gulf Coastal Plain rises from sea level along the marshy Gulf Coast to a high point of 806 ft at Woodall Mountain, in the Tennessee River Hills.
		Forming the western edge of the plain are the Bluff Hills, a belt of low hills from 5 to 15 mi wide that extends the entire length of the state.
	www.cottage-canada-usa.com /mississippi.htm (897 words)

	The Ecology of Delta Forests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Mississippi Alluvial Plain is an area of little topographic relief with an average slope of about.5 feet per mile toward the Gulf of Mexico.
		The natural levees are formed of lighter silt and sand particles which lacked the mass to carry far from the river or stream channel during flood events, while the heavier clay deposits carried further from the channel and thus formed backswamp areas.
		Vegetative adaptations to the hydrogeomorphology of the alluvial plain have resulted in very specific site/species relationships for bottomland hardwood tree species.
	www.deltalandtrust.org /ecology.html (258 words)

	EPA-Ecoregions of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain
		Ecoregions denote areas of general similarity in ecosystems and in the type, quality, and quantity of environmental resources; they are designed to serve as a spatial framework for the research, assessment, management, and monitoring of ecosystems and ecosystem components.
		The approach used to compile this map is based on the premise that ecological regions can be identified through the analysis of the spatial patterns and the composition of biotic and abiotic phenomena that affect or reflect differences in ecosystem quality and integrity (Wiken, 1986; Omernik, 1987, 1995).
		This level III and IV ecoregion map was compiled at a scale of 1:250,000 and depicts revisions and subdivisions of earlier level III ecoregions that were originally compiled at a smaller scale (USEPA 2003, Omernik, 1987).
	www.epa.gov /wed/pages/ecoregions/map_eco.htm (1092 words)

	Tennessee maps information and real estate
		To the west of the Appalachian Plateau lies the Highland Rim, an elevated plain that surrounds the Nashville Basin.
		The Gulf Coastal Plain is, in terms of area, the predominant land region in Tennessee.
		In Tennessee, the Gulf Coastal Plain is divided into three sections that extend from the Tennessee River, in the east, to the Mississippi River in the west.
	www.real-estate-multilist.com /State/Tennessee.htm (570 words)

	Mississippi Real Estate Homes For Sale Homegevity.com
		Mississippi is home to some major rivers which are the Mississippi River, Big Black River, Pearl River, Yazoo River, Pascagoula River, and Tombigbee River.
		Mississippi is also home to Ross Barnett Reservoir, Arkabutla Lake, Sardis Lake, and Grenada Lake making Mississippi a great place to live.
		Mississippi's weather is noted as being warm and humid climate with long summers and short, mild winters.
	www.homegevity.com /united_states/mississippi_real_estate (170 words)

	MAV Bird Conservation Plan
		In addition to 21 internal hydrologic units (Table 2), the Mississippi Alluvial Valley receives drainage from many eastern and central U.S. watersheds, including the Ohio, Arkansas, and Red Rivers.
		The altered hydrology of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley has in turn influenced the composition and structure of forested wetlands as well as the amount of open water-shoreline habitat.
		The northern portion of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley overlays the New Madrid fault line with the potential for earthquakes.
	www.blm.gov /wildlife/plan/MAV_plan.html (1133 words)

	Discussion
		Almost 69 percent of the region's palustrine forested wetland loss was recorded within the Gulf-Atlantic Coastal Flats and Lower Mississippi Alluvial Plain.
		Large acreages of palustrine forested wetlands were lost in the Gulf-Atlantic Coastal Flats of North Carolina and the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Plain in Louisiana.
		In the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Plain, nearly one million acres of bottomland hardwood wetlands were destroyed, mostly converted to farm land.
	www.fws.gov /nwi/Pubs_Reports/Sewet/discuss.html (626 words)

	Crowley's Ridge
		It is surrounded by alluvial plain and is a
		The ridge is a result of the original strip between the two old channels of the Mississippi river.
		The Ridge is surrounded by the fertile lands of the delta region.
	www.scsc.k12.ar.us /BorneC/newpage9.htm (691 words)

	Mississippi Ants - AntWeb
		Most of Mississippi lies in the Gulf Coastal Plain physiographic region, with only the extreme northeastern corner of the state in Tishomingo County being found in the Cumberland Plateau.
		Part of Tishomingo County, in northeastern Mississippi, and the loess hills adjacent to the Mississippi-Yazoo Alluvial Plain and extending into southeastern Louisiana share many plant and insect species that occur in northeastern United States.
		Additionally, with the exception of land cleared for agricultural purposes, or open prairie remnants, much of Mississippi is wooded and has forests ranging from long leaf pine savannas to hardwood forests to cypress swamps.
	www.antweb.org /mississippi.jsp (470 words)

	Arkansas Geography: Arkansas Regions and Landforms
		The Ouachita Mountain Region is on the western side of Arkansas with the Gulf Coastal Plain to the south and the Arkansas River Valley to the north.
		The Mississippi Alluvial Plain lies along the Mississippi River and covers the eastern third of Arkansas.
		The alluvial plain consists of both Pleistocene (Ice Age) and recent deposits of clay, silt, sand, and gravel that were laid down by the Mississippi River as it meandered across this broad floodplain.
	www.e-referencedesk.com /resources/state-geography/arkansas.html (734 words)

	USGS Topographic Maps Illustrating Physiographic Features
		Use this index to select the names and locations of topographic maps that illustrate the particular physical feature of interest, such as those resulting from glaciation, karst, tectonics, or volcanism.
		This set of maps generally follows the USGS Physical Divisions Map of the United States, and illustrates most of its 86 sections.
		These maps are drawn according to the National Map Accuracy Standard and are most commonly published at 1:24,000, 1:100,000, 1:250,000, and 1:500,000-scale, although many other scales exist as well.
	rockyweb.cr.usgs.gov /public/outreach/featureindex.html (2803 words)

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