Mississippian
Gulf coast dweller
Mississippian describes someone or something from Mississippi, the U.S. state: Mississippian hospitality, a lifelong Mississippian.
In geology, the Mississippian is a period of the Paleozoic era, roughly 360 to 320 million years ago, named for limestone formations along the Mississippi River valley.
British geologists typically call this same period the Lower Carboniferous.
Armor shielding the throat
- effigySculpted human representation
- potteryFired clay objects
- maizeCob-bearing cereal crop
- chiefdomPolitical unit under chief
Kincaid · plaza · ceremonial · agriculture · trade routes · settlement · artifact · earthworks
Coal-depositing geological period
- PennsylvanianNative of Keystone State
- PaleozoicEarly complex-life epoch
- limestoneCarbonate sedimentary rock
- shaleCompacted clay sediment
coal · strata · sedimentary · delta · marine · brachiopods · coral reefs · fossils
Native of Keystone State
- DevonianGeologic period, 419-359 million years ago
- CarboniferousCoal-depositing geological period
- PermianLate Paleozoic geological period
- PaleozoicEarly complex-life epoch
subdivision · stratigraphy · geochronology · boundary · formation · period · stage
gorget
Armor shielding the throat
Kincaid · chiefdom · plaza · ceremonial · agriculture · trade routes · settlement · artifact · earthworks · palisade
Carboniferous
Coal-depositing geological period
- PennsylvanianNative of Keystone State
- PaleozoicEarly complex-life epoch
- limestoneCarbonate sedimentary rock
shale · coal · strata · sedimentary · delta · marine · brachiopods · coral reefs · fossils · paleontology
Pennsylvanian
Native of Keystone State
- DevonianGeologic period, 419-359 million years ago
- CarboniferousCoal-depositing geological period
- PermianLate Paleozoic geological period
Paleozoic · subdivision · stratigraphy · geochronology · boundary · formation · period · stage
Delta
Alluvial formation at mouth
- SouthernOf the region below
- Gulf CoastSouthern U.S. maritime region
- JacksonCommon surname and place
Biloxi · Vicksburg · Natchez · Tupelo · Faulkner · blues · catfish · magnolia · hospitality · drawl
- geologic timeeons, eon, epochs, era, epoch
- Pre-ColumbianAztec, Maya, Inca, Olmec, Mesoamerica
- SouthernersAlabaman, Alabamian, Alabamians, Arkansan, Arkansans
- ancient civilizationsAncient Egypt, Sumer, Ancient Greece, Aztecs, Egypt
- DemonymsAmerican, Australian, Canadian, British, Chinese
- Moundsant mound, anthill, burial mound, cairn, dirt pile
MississippianCalifornian
Native of a western state
New Yorker · Alaskan · Hawaiian · Mainer · Vermonter
MississippianPennsylvanian
Native of Keystone State
Cambrian · Precambrian · Quaternary · Holocene · Permian
- Mississippi RiverLongest North American watercourse
- Mississippi mud pieLayered chocolate cream dessert
- Mississippi DeltaRiver's fan-shaped lowland
- Mississippi BurningFilm about murdered activists
- Mississippi bluesSouthern folk music tradition
- Mississippi River DeltaSouthern Louisiana coastal marshland