East Baton Rouge Parish, which includes the capital seat of Louisiana and an urban area that has undergone substantial development in the past decade, is traversed and impacted by at least two faults. These faults are known to be active but apparently move so slowly that they do not produce earthquakes, as we know them elsewhere. The parish is underlain by coast-parallel terraces formed by deposits of the Mississippi River and smaller coastal-plain streams from the recent geologic past, and these elevated terraces are incised by the bottomlands of the river and streams, in which sediment is still being deposited today. The Prairie Terrace is exposed over most of East Baton Rouge Parish and is broken by the Baton Rouge fault and the Denham Springs Scotlandville fault, which are collectively referred to as the Baton Rouge fault system.
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