Tag: Subsidence

Louisiana Coastal Land Loss Since 1956

Land Area Change in Coastal Louisiana After the 2005 Hurricanes: A Historical Perspective (from 1956) – Full Size Poster This map only shows land as lost when it is turned to open water. There are large areas of land, such…

Mississippi Delta Subsidence in Action – Fort Proctor

Photo by Marli Miller – marlimillerphoto.com A visualization of century-scale impacts of subsidence and sea level rise as seen in a time sequence reconstruction at Fort Proctor in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana by Chris McLindon Fort Proctor is a pre-civil war…

Progress Report: Subsidence in the Central Valley, California

Progress Report: Subsidence in the Central Valley, California Tom G Farr, Cathleen Jones, Zhen Liu Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Executive summary Subsidence caused by groundwater pumping in the Central Valley has been a problem for decades. Over…

Sinking Cities – Global Cities Sinking into the Ocean

Sinking cities An integrated approach towards solutions (2013). In many coastal and delta cities land subsidence exceeds absolute sea level rise up to a factor of ten. Without action, parts of Jakarta, Ho Chi Minh City, Bangkok and numerous other…

Faulting on the Louisiana Coast

  Also see: Faults Basement Controls on Subsurface Geologic Patterns and Coastal Geomorphology across the Northern Gulf of Mexico: Implications for Subsidence Studies and Coastal Restoration, by Bryan P. Stephens. A self-narrated, animated slide-show of his award-winning paper (AAPG paper of…

The Delta Cycle and the Future of Coastal Louisiana

Chris McLindon and Edward Richards – Board of Commissioners of SLFPA-E vs. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., et.al. – Legal and Geological Evaluation (View in slide show mode to see the animations.) This is a summary presentation of the issues: Time and River:Coastal…