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100			_aRussell, Catherine _952668
245			_aGeological evolution of the Mississippi River into the Anthropocene
260			_bsage _c2021
300			_aVol 8, Issue 2, 2021 : (115-140 p.).
520			_aThe Mississippi River maintains commercial and societal networks of the USA along its >3700 km length. It has accumulated a fluvial sedimentary succession over 80 million years. Through the last 11,700 years of the Holocene Epoch, the wild river shaped the landscape, models of which have become classic in geological studies of ancient river strata. Studies of the river were led by the need to develop infrastructure and to search for hydrocarbons, through which, these models have become quite sophisticated. However, whilst the models demonstrate how the wild river behaves, a monumental shift in fundamental controls on the entire fluvial system, broadly coinciding with the proposed mid-20th century onset of the Anthropocene Epoch, has generated new geological patterns that are becoming globally ubiquitous, and which the Mississippi River typifies. As such, whilst classic Holocene river models may be compared to human-modified systems such as the Lower Mississippi River (and others worldwide), locally the models may now only directly apply to its fossilized components preserved in the sub-surface. Such river models need adapting to better understand the present dynamics, and future evolution of these landscapes.
650			_aAnthropocene, _952669
650			_ageology, _952670
650			_aHolocene, _952671
650			_ahuman-impact, _949473
650			_aMississippi River, _949695
650			_a models, _952672
650			_asediment _951706
700			_aWaters, Colin N _952673
700			_aHimson, Stephen _952716
773	0		_010524 _915375 _dSage Pub. 2019 - _tAnthropocene review/ _x2053-020X
856			_uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/20530196211045527
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