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    <title>Lower Mississippi River delta</title>
    <subTitle>reports on the geology of Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes</subTitle>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Dept. of Conservation, Louisiana Geological Survey</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1936</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xiii, 454 p. illus., maps, tables. 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Physiography of lower Mississippi River delta, by R. J. Russell.--Salt domes of Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes, by H. V. Howe and J. H. McGuirt.--Bibliography, comp. by R. J. Russell and C. F. Dohm (p. 279-320)--List of maps dealing with Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes, comp. by C. F. Dohm (p. 321-338)--Petrography of two Mississippi River sub-deltas, by C. F. Dohm.--Igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary pebbles from the Chandeleur Islands, by C. F. Dohm.--Some notes on the recent Mollusca from Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes, by Wade Hadley, jr.--A preliminary report on the Indian mounds and middens of Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes, by F. B. Kniffen.--The vegetation of the Indian mounds, middens, and marshes in Plaquemines and St. Bernard Parishes, by C. A. Brown.</tableOfContents>
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    <geographic>Mississippi River Delta (La.)</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Geology</topic>
    <geographic>Louisiana</geographic>
    <geographic>Plaquemines Parish</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Geology</topic>
    <geographic>Louisiana</geographic>
    <geographic>Saint Bernard Parish</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Petrology</topic>
    <geographic>Louisiana</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Mounds</topic>
    <geographic>Louisiana</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Botany</topic>
    <geographic>Louisiana</geographic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">QE117 .A22 no. 8</classification>
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      <title>Geological bulletin ; no. 8</title>
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