“…Many of these sites, most notably the Vicksburg and Natchez sites ( Fig. 2g and h, respectively), have been the subject of sedimentologic, ecologic, and faunal studies for decades (Wascher et al, 1947;Leighton and Willman, 1950;Leonard and Frye, 1960;Hubricht, 1963;Krinitzsky and Turnbull, 1967;Snowden and Priddy, 1968;Ruhe, 1984a,b;Pye and Johnson, 1988;Clark et al, 1989;McCraw and Autin, 1989;Markewich, 1993Markewich, , 1994Mirecki and Miller, 1994;Oches et al, 1996;Rodbell et al, 1997;Markewich et al, 1998;Oches and McCoy, 2001;Bettis et al, 2003).…”