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A deposit of sediment at the mouth of a river or tidal inlet. The name, from the Greek letter Δ, was first used by Herodotus (fifth century B....


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Figure 1. Schematic diagram showing two stages of growth of a typical Gilbert-type delta. (After P. H. Kuenen, Marine Geology, John Wiley and...
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Figure 2. Modern Mississippi bird-foot delta. 1 mi = 1.6 km. (After H. N. Fisk et al., Sedimentary framework of the modern Mississippi delta, ...
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Figure 3. Examples of deltaic sediment distribution. 1 mi = 1.6 km.
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