• add external link: http://cires.colorado.edu/science/pro/wdn/Coleman%20Report/LandlossSummary.pdf

• delta switching details during the Holocene period
• Science: A Revised Chronology for Mississippi River Subdeltas
• The Lake Pontchartrain Basin began forming about 5,000 years ago when the North American glacier melts caused the Mississippi River to swell and shift to the east...
• before the Mississippi was flowing strong, it was frozen in glaciers