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I don't think it was ever above sea level, but yes it was significantly closer to sea level. The whole "bowl" is nothing but silt deposited by thousands of years of flooding of the Mississippi. Once the city was built and the river leveed off, the silt began to compact and it was no longer replenished by regular floods.
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