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Oil from the Mississippi Lime
September 27, 2011 | Tulsa World

Several oil and gas companies are producing oil from horizontal wells drilled into the Mississippi Lime, a permeable limestone beneath the Kansas-Oklahoma state boundary.


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Mississippi River Flooding Near Vicksburg, Mississippi
May 13, 2011 | NASA Earth Observatory
The Mississippi River was rising quickly in Vicksburg, Mississippi, when NASA captured this image on...


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