Morphing Mississippi
January 18th, 2006 | Filed under: Mapping, Past | 1 Comment »
Each plate from Harold N. Fisk’s 1944 geological survey of the Mississippi is stunning on its own. Strung together, it becomes a beautiful creature twitching along the terrain.
via Pruned
Reminds me of the passage in the McPhee book The Control Nature in which he describes the Mississippi as a hand running back and forth over a piano.