Test Event

The team of researchers from The Water Institute of the Gulf, Tulane University and Carolina Coastal University drilled hundreds of cores into the splay of land formed by what's called the Attakapas Crevasse, a break that developed on the western bank of Bayou Lafourche sometime between the years 800 and 1400. They found the crevasse was extremely effective in naturally building land composed of 95 percent mud, plus a combination of clay and silt particles.