CARBON STORAGE AND LATE HOLOCENE CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHY OF A MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTAIC MARSH, ST. BERNARD PARISH, LOUISIANA

US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 98-36

FIGURE 4A. Deltaic environments in the vicinity of the St. Bernard core locality; these are characteristic of progradation in this part of the Mississippi River deltaic plain. Vegetation associated with the environments of deposition: brackish marsh , predominantly Spartina patens (wiregrass) with minor amounts of Scirpus olneyi (three-cornered grass); natural levee and point bar, predominantly live oaks and water oaks, with minor amounts of pecan, hackberry, and bald cypress; swamp, predominantly bald cypress trees with minor amounts of tupelo gum, live oaks, water oaks, elms, hackberry, and sweet gum trees.