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  2. Inverted river delta - Wikipedia

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    Inland delta of the Niger River.. 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.

  3. River delta - Wikipedia

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    A river delta is so named because the shape of the Nile Delta approximates the triangular uppercase Greek letter delta.The triangular shape of the Nile Delta was known to audiences of classical Athenian drama; the tragedy Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus refers to it as the "triangular Nilotic land", though not as a "delta". [8]

  4. Inland delta - Wikipedia

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  5. Inner Niger Delta - Wikipedia

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    The Inner Niger Delta, also known as the Macina or Masina, [2] is the inland river delta of the Niger River. It is an area of fluvial wetlands, lakes and floodplains in the semi-arid Sahel area of central Mali , just south of the Sahara Desert .

  6. Okavango Delta - Wikipedia

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    Satellite image of Okavango Delta, with national borders added Typical region in the Okavango Delta, with free canals and lakes, swamps and islandsThe Okavango Delta [2] (or Okavango Grassland; formerly spelled "Okovango" or "Okovanggo") in Botswana is a vast inland delta formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough at an altitude of 930–1,000 m [3] in the central part of the ...

  7. Water use in alluvial fans - Wikipedia

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    The very extensive and flat Okavango inland delta near Maun, Botswana. Map of the Okavango Delta. The Okavango inland delta, near Maun, receives an enormous amount of river inflow from Angola. Hence, the fan is so large and flat that it is rather called a delta. It takes six months for the peak inflow at the apex to reach the base of the delta. [4]

  8. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    The application of geographical knowledge and techniques to the solution of economic and social problems on any scale, ranging from local to global, in disciplines such as civic planning, land use and management, location policy, and population studies, among many others. [4] apposed glacier A glacier resulting from the merging of two separate ...

  9. Distributary - Wikipedia

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    A seasonal distributary of the Kaveri River on the Kaveri delta, near Nannilam, India. Kollidam River is a distributary of the Kaveri River. Himalayan rivers including Ganges, Brahmaputra and Indus plus many tributaries form inland distributaries over vast alluvial fans as they transition from the mountain region to the flat Indo-Gangetic Plain.