Study shows that Louisiana slipping very slowly into the Gulf of Mexico

[Ilsa]

Study shows that Louisiana slipping very slowly into the Gulf of Mexico
January 02, 2007 - Posted at 12:00 a.m.
BY CAIN BURDEAU - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW ORLEANS - A new report by scientists studying Louisiana's sinking coast says the land here is not just sinking, it's sliding ever so slowly into the Gulf of Mexico.

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Researchers have known for years that the swampy land under south Louisiana is sinking (potholed streets and wobbly porches and floors are visible evidence of that) but a lateral movement of the land into the Gulf enters largely unstudied terrain.

The report, which appeared in December's Geophysical Research Letters, a peer-reviewed journal published by the American Geophysical Union, says the bedrock under heavily populated southeast Louisiana is breaking away at a glacial speed - at the pace fingernails grow.

The southward movement, the study says, is triggered by deep underground faults slipping under the enormous weight of sediment dumped by the Mississippi River.

The slippage, though, is confined to a large egg-shaped area approximately 250 miles long and 180 miles wide that encompasses the delta of the Mississippi, which was built up by river deposits over the past 8,000 years, the report says.

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[Jacobin]

1. From the article

slipping the width of two credit cards a year.

How fast is California slipping?

[slackmaster]

2. Creep rate on San Andreas Fault is about 3.4 cm per year

http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq3/safaultgip.html

http://www.johnmartin.com/earthquakes/eqsafs/safs_431.htm

And no, the part west of the fault is NOT slipping into the ocean.

[pinto]

4. Yeah, the Pacific plate slip is an approx. North/South movement.

Interesting stuff, all.

[Strathos]

3. Damn those homosexuals

You know it's our fault for all our sex and freaky parties.

I just wanted to say it before Falwell or Robertson had the chance to.

LOL

[kenny blankenship]

5. You kidding? It's obviously the Mexicans' fault

It's their gulf, after all, which is stealing Louisiana from us. They don't call it the Gulf of Texas, or the Gulf of America.

[SoCalDem]

6. It's those damned BEADS...and the additional weight of all the implants

:)

[Hoping4Change]

7. LOL

:rofl:


(thanx, I needed that)

[Maddy McCall]

8. Link?

I'd like to read more about this, since I appear to be in the affected region.

Thanks.

[OKIsItJustMe]

9. AP: Study: La. Slowly Slipping Into Gulf - Link

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SINKING_LOUISIANA

[jus_the_facts]

10. Again...NO SHIT....it's been common knowledge for YEARS.....

...yet there hasn't been enough ACTION to stop it...just continuing to study and TALK about it instead...pathetic fucktarded assbackwards bullshit. :puffpiece:

[liberal N proud]

11. California falling into the Pacific

Louisiana falling in to the Gulf of Mexico. Now I can't decide to buy land in the California desert or Southern Arkansas.