Three Types of River Delta - Fan, Bird's Foot and Tooth (UEB contracted)
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- Synopsis
- This page shows three maps of river delta. Each image is surrounded by an image border. There is a locator dot shown, which will be at the top left of the page when the image is the correct way up. The image in the top of the page is of an arcuate delta. The river Nile goes up the page from the bottom centre of the image. It branches into many distributaries in a fan like shape, the delta getting wider towards the sea. The Mediterranean coastline goes from left to right across the page. Part of the Mediterranean Sea fills the top half of the image. The characteristics of arcuate deltas are lots of short distributaries which fan out as they go downstream. The image in the middle of the page is a bird's foot delta. The Mississippi River goes from the top left of the image down and right making a peninsular sticking out into the Gulf of Mexico. In the centre of the image it branches into a few main distributaries. Each distributary lays a finger of silt in the sea so that the delta resembles a bird's foot. The image in the bottom of the page is of a cuspate delta. The Tiber River goes from the top right, meandering towards the bottom centre of the image. It has very few distributaries and an even spread of deposition making a shape similar to a tooth. The Italian coast goes from near the bottom right towards the top left of the image. The Tyrrhenian Sea fills the left half of the image.
- Copyright:
- 2011
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Publisher:
- RNIB
- Date of Addition:
- 05/22/17
- Copyrighted By:
- RNIB
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Earth Sciences
- Submitted By:
- Deborah Morton
- Proofread By:
- N/A
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.