Sandy, laterally accreting channelform incised into floodplain/shoreline coals in the Cretaceous Book Cliffs of Utah; this famous outcrop is right on I-70, and has probably been responsible for a number of insurance claims among geologists, I reckon!
More plates from Fisk (1944) Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River. This one here...why, this one is Plate 22-7! Rad!
Plate 22-4 from Fisk (1944). Awesome? You bet.
More Fisk! More Mississippi River Meander Belts! Here's Fisk (1944) Plate 22-3!
The water of the Green River, cutting through the the rocks of Green River Formation...whoa! Meta, eh? This picture is south of the town of Green River, Wyoming.
Plate 22-2, from Fisk (1944) Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River, illustrating the spatial and temporal heterogeneity in the configuration of the Mississippi meander belts.
Plate 22-1 from "Geological Investigation of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River" (Fisk, 1944). The Map illustrates the ages and positions of the sweeping meander belts of older Mississippi channels. Note the impingement where meander migration gets restricted; trapped here, the Mississippi is incapable of moving or depositing floodplain sediments.
