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RIVER FEATURES

WATERFALL FEATURES THE MISSISSIPPI DELTA

Mississippi
Hard Island River Hard River Levee Distributary
rock rock

Rock
undercut
by swirling
boulders Point
bar
Plunge
pool
Swamp
Softer
rock
Rock undercut
by swirling
boulders
Flood-
plain River Levee formed from
sediment deposited
by floods
Sediment
plume
Sediment
LEVEE
Present
floodplain
River Sea Levee Freshwater Spit Sediment
Oldest terrace bay plume
(remnant of
previous flood-
plain)
FORMATION OF A DELTA
Sediment
RIVER TERRACE
Distributary Lagoon Earliest deposit Latest deposit
Sediment of sediment Bedrock of sediment Sea
deposited
by river
Floodplain
River
Sea SECTION THROUGH DELTA
Bay Sediment
deposited
Levee
River by river Distributary Lagoon
EARLY STAGE
Sea-cliff
Distributary Lagoon Bar
Sediment
deposited
by river Sea

River Levee

Swamp formed
Sea by deposition of Levee Spit Infilled swamp Lagoon Sea
sediment in lagoon MIDDLE STAGE LATE STAGE

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