Tag: Mississippi
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Geologists Stumble Upon Remains of Giant ‘Sea Monster’ in Mississippi, Likely the Largest Mosasaur Ever Identified in the State
Smithsonian Magazine has a story about the discovery of a very large mosasaur in Mississippi. The animal was about 30 feet long and lived about 66 million year ago. A single vertebra was more 7 inches wide. It was found sticking out of the mud of the Prarie Bluff Formation of Oktibbeha County in east-central…
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Subsidence Rate for Mississippi Delta
Via NSF.gov: The Earth’s crust beneath the Mississippi Delta sinks at a much slower rate than what had been assumed. That’s one of the results geoscientists report today in a paper published in the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
