For people interested in what is casuing subsidence within
teh Mississippi Delta, Louisiana, I reccomend the following
PDF files of reports and articles, which can be donwloaded.

1. Active Geological Faulting and Land Change in Southwest
Louisiana: A Study of the Contribution of Faulting to Relative
Subsidence Rates, Land Loss, and Resulting Effects on Flood
Control, Navigation, Hurricane Protection and Coastal
Restoration Projects. Coastal Environments. Inc, (Baton
Rouge, LA) Report (25.6 MB PDF file) at [www.coastalenv.com]

2. Effects of Earthquakes, Fault Movements, and Subsidence
on the South Louisiana Landscape. Coastal Environments, Inc,
(Baton Rouge, LA) Report(2.2 MB PDF file) at [www.coastalenv.com]

3. The Anatomy of a Silent Disaster: Ongoing Subsidence and
Inundation of the Northern Margin of the Gulf of Mexico Basin
An Interview with Dr. Roy Dokka Center for GeoInformatics
and Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering,
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA. Houston
Geological Society Bulletin. vol 47, no. 6, pp. 31-47. (February
2005). (PDF file) [www.c4g.lsu.edu]. The link to this article can
be found at [www.c4g.lsu.edu] and [www.hgs.org].

Another useful article is:

Wetlands: Impacts of Energy Development in the Mississippi Delt
by Jae-Young Ko and John W. Day, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana,a PDF file at [www.lsu.edu].

It discusses the problems which oil and gas development do cause.

Best Regards,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)