Preface |
v |
Acknowledgments |
vii |
Abstract |
1 |
1. |
Geologic history of the central Mississippi River Valley area in a nutshell |
3 |
2. |
Precambrian rocks — Foundation to the central Mississippi River Valley |
17 |
3. |
Late Proterozoic and Early Cambrian rifting of the southeastern United States |
29 |
4. |
Paleozoic time in the Mississippi River Valley |
33 |
5. |
Appalachian–Ouachita Mountains and their foreland basins |
39 |
6. |
Pangea rips apart — The formation of the Gulf of Mexico |
53 |
7. |
Cretaceous-Tertiary formation of the Mississippi Embayment and Mississippi River |
65 |
8. |
Sediments of the Mississippi Embayment |
73 |
9. |
The central Mississippi River Valley and its great earthquakes of 1811–1812 |
83 |
10. |
What’s next? |
103 |
Epilogue |
107 |