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Deltas and Human History
Though only making up 5% of the Earth’s land surface, river deltas are home to over half a billion people.
May 13, 2012 -
Blue Holes
Some Mississippi River Delta floods have been so powerful that they tore enormous gashes in the landscape still visible over a century later.
May 6, 2012 -
The Physical Environment 3: Building on Its Own High Ground
As the Mississippi River lays down new land in the delta, its riverbed lengthens, decreasing the slope of the river and creating the perfect conditions for major upheaval in the landscape.
April 23, 2012 -
The Physical Environment 2: High Ground, Low Ground
On the mixed up topography of river deltas.
April 8, 2012 -
The Physical Environment 1: River Deltas and Delta Time
When sea levels finally stabilized about 10,000 years after the last ice age, large rivers all over the planet started building land out into their respective oceans.
March 25, 2012
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