{"id":4972,"date":"2011-06-06T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2011-06-03T11:09:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T16:09:54","slug":"cubits-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/06\/cubits-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"cubit&#8217;s gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4979\" title=\"cubits-gap\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cubits-gap.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cubits-gap.jpg 525w, http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/cubits-gap-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[Cubit&#8217;s Gap, Louisiana]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>FASLANYC<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/faslanyc.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/mississippi-river-land-making-machine.html\">reports on the Mississippi as a &#8220;land-making machine&#8221;<\/a>, vividly illustrated by the case of Cubit&#8217;s Gap:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;let\u2019s consider the case of Cubit\u2019s Gap, a major subdelta of the [Mississippi].\u00a0 The gap formed in 1862 after an oyster fisherman (Cubit) and his daughters excavated a small ditch in the natural levee between the Mississippi River and the oyster-rich Bay Ronde in order to portage their fishing boat more easily.\u00a0 The following spring floodwater poured through, gouging a crevasse and depositing sediment.\u00a0 Six years later the crevasse was 2,427 feet wide.\u00a0 By 1940 a landmass larger than New Orleans had been created and the Bay Ronde had completely disappeared.\u00a0 Today, the Cubits Gap subdelta is 40,000 acres of national wildlife refuge and is quickly subsiding back into the Gulf of Mexico.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Cubit&#8217;s Gap, Louisiana] FASLANYC reports on the Mississippi as a &#8220;land-making machine&#8221;, vividly illustrated by the case of Cubit&#8217;s Gap: &#8220;&#8230;let\u2019s consider the case of Cubit\u2019s Gap, a major subdelta of the [Mississippi].\u00a0 The gap formed in 1862 after an oyster fisherman (Cubit) and his daughters excavated a small ditch in the natural levee between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,594],"tags":[613,591],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","category-floods","tag-land-making-machine","tag-mississippi-river"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4991,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions\/4991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}