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Loess Bluff
Mile Post 012.4 |
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Loess Bluff
Distance to Nearest Parkway Restroom 3.1 Miles North to Mount Locust 12.8 Miles South to Natchez MS Distance to Nearest Gas Stations 25.5 Miles North to US 61 Then 0.5 Miles North 12.4 Miles South to Library Rd Then 0.7 Mile West |
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Loess Bluff This bluff shows a deep deposit of windblown topsoil known as loess. It was formed during the Ice Age when glaciers covered the northern half of the United States. At this time nearly continuous dust storms swept in from the western plains and covered this area with windblown dust to a depth of thirty to ninety feet. Here it rests on sands and clays of an ancient sea. It originally covered a vast region but this area is now confined to a strip east of the Mississippi from three to thirty miles wide extending from Baton Rouge, LA into Tennessee. Where the Old Natchez Trace passed over loess soil it formed sunken roads, in places 20 feet deep. |
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Loess Bluff
Mile Post 012.4 |
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