The sexiest maps I’ve seen in my whole life. Mississippi meander maps. Maptastic.
From the Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River – Fisk, 1944
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And welcome to The Mississippi on Mouth to Source.
“Individual quadrangle maps are presented as zip files containing the scanned quadrangle map at 300 dots-per-inch (dpi) resolution, and the associated geologic cross-sections that accompany each map at 175 dpi. Usually each quadrangle map contains two cross-sections. However, some quadrangle maps may contain more cross-sections depending on the available boring data at the time the engineering geology map was produced.”
The Report and the Plates are here. Fill your hard drives Link rot. Try direct contact via the emails below. 
Mega!
P.s. I’ve tinkered with the images a little. Basically I’ve whitened the paper base. The high resolution map scans look a bit like The Financial Times.
A massive hi 5 to Joe Dunbar (Geotechnical and Structures Lab (GSL), Engineering Geology and Geophysics Branch), (tel: 601-634-3315), email: [email protected] and W. Milton Myers (tel: 601-634-3376), email [email protected]
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These maps are absolutely captivating and beautiful! Thank you for posting them. Any idea which map corresponds with the Clarksdale, MS, area? I am working on a post and would love to use the appropriate map. Thanks again!
Hi Marilyn,
Glad you like the maps.
I can’t tell you about Clarksdale MS area but the entire river (as far as I am aware) is available here.
http://lmvmapping.erdc.usace.army.mil/index.htm
Big download… Years of pleasure.
Paul
these maps are so gorgeous!
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