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Inverted River Delta

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An inverted river delta is a river delta in which the usual shape is reversed, with its narrow end reaching the seafront while its wide end lies further inland, so that relative to the coastline the usual broad to narrow orientation is flipped.

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Inverted river delta (Wikipedia)
  • Caused By: Sedimentation, Lead paragraph
    An inverted river delta is a river delta in which the narrow end of the delta emerges on the seafront and the wide end is located further inland, so that with respect to the seafront, the locations of both ends of the delta are inverted.
  • In Discipline: Geomorphology, Lead sentence
    An inverted river delta is a river delta in which the narrow end of the delta emerges on the seafront and the wide end is located further inland, so that with respect to the seafront, the locations of both ends of the delta are inverted.
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