New map details sinking land along Louisiana’s coast

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Researchers at Tulane University have developed a new map that details the varying rates at which land is sinking along the Louisiana coast. “The novel aspect of this study is that it provides a map that shows subsidence rates as observed at the land surface,” Torbjörn Törnqvist, professor of geology at Tulane, said in a […]

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June 16, 2017 at 07:14AM