Asked in River Deltas
River Deltas
What places are river deltas found?
Answer
Wiki User
September 13, 2011 11:48AM
At the end of the river, the places where the river empties out into something else, usually a lake or the ocean.
The reason that some rivers enter the sea with a delta rether than an estuary depends on tidal flow. Where there is little difference in the tidal range a Delta is formed, as in the Mississippi entering the Gulf of Mexico.
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