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New Land on the Louisiana Coast

While most of the Mississippi River’s delta plain is losing ground, new land is forming at the mouths of the Wax Lake Outlet and the Atchafalaya River.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Caption by Adam Voiland.

Published February 12, 2015
Data acquired 1984 - 2014

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI