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Is sand in the Mississippi River delta a sustainable resource?

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Figure 1: Missouri–Mississippi system.

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  2. Coastal Studies Institute, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 70808, Louisiana, USA

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Blum, M., Roberts, H. Is sand in the Mississippi River delta a sustainable resource?. Nature Geosci 7, 851–852 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2310

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