{"id":6875,"date":"2014-01-06T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T17:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=6875"},"modified":"2014-01-06T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T17:12:11","slug":"the-collision-of-geologic-time-and-infrastructural-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2014\/01\/the-collision-of-geologic-time-and-infrastructural-control\/","title":{"rendered":"the collision of geologic time and infrastructural control"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Before artificial levee construction, the river avulsed and a new\u00a0delta was constructed every 1,000-1,500 yr: the active Plaquemines-Balize Delta began to form about 1,000 yr ago, and was for some\u00a0time contemporaneous with the older Lafourche Delta, whereas diversion\u00a0to the Atchafalaya River course began about 500 yr ago, but\u00a0is now managed by the US Army Corps of Engineers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>[Michael Blum and Harry Roberts, &#8220;Drowning of the Mississippi Delta due to insufficient sediment supply and global sea-level rise&#8221;;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/webspace.utexas.edu\/hudsonpf\/classes\/watershed-management_spring_2010\/readings_2010\/blum-roberts-mississippi-nature.pdf\">PDF<\/a>\u00a0link]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Before artificial levee construction, the river avulsed and a new\u00a0delta was constructed every 1,000-1,500 yr: the active Plaquemines-Balize Delta began to form about 1,000 yr ago, and was for some\u00a0time contemporaneous with the older Lafourche Delta, whereas diversion\u00a0to the Atchafalaya River course began about 500 yr ago, but\u00a0is now managed by the US Army Corps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566,3,43],"tags":[708,800,252],"class_list":["post-6875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dredge","category-landscape","category-landscape-architecture","tag-accelerated-geology","tag-dredgefest-louisiana","tag-geologic-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875","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=6875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}