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Identifier: geologyagricultu05loui (find matches)
Title: Geology and agriculture
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Louisiana Geological Survey Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station
Subjects: Geology
Publisher: Baton Rouge
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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d Red bayoudrainage system. From there its course to the river was alongthe line of the present Twelve Mile bayou. At Shreveport another little creek valley with its crooked littlestream opened into the river valley. The formation of Cross, Caddo and Ferry lakes.—When the raftin its progress up the river approached the mouth of the littlecreek which drained Cross lake valle\, the water was backed upinto the valle3^ As the distance between the mouth of thelittle stream and the raft diminished the level of the water in thevalley was raised and when the raft reached the mouth of thecreek the water in the valley reached a level equal to the banksof the river. When the mouth of Twelve Mile bayou was reached the lowerpart of the Shreveport-Blanktons bluffs bottom-basin was filledwith water forming Sodo lake. The water was also backed upinto the Ferry lake valley. The flooding of Ferry lake valley killed all the trees. After For a discussion of similar creek bottoms see article on page 68.
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Gkoi^ogicai, vSurvrv of I/Ouistana, Report, 1899 A R K A N S A S Plate 16

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