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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.

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Inverted river delta

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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...

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River delta

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A river delta is a landform shaped like a triangle, created by the deposition of sediment that is carried by a river and enters slower-moving or stagnant...

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Tagus

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those of 1309, 1531, and 1909. Tagus river is one of the few rivers in the world to have an inverted delta. Its delta is wider at the beginning and narrows...

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Suisun Bay

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of the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River, forming the entrance to the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, an inverted river delta. To the west, Suisun...

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Carquinez Strait

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strait has led to the formation of the San Joaquin–Sacramento River Delta, an inverted river delta, upstream of it, a rare geological feature. The strait is...

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Delta

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alphabet: "Delta"), the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet River delta, at a river mouth Delta Air Lines, US Delta may also refer to: Delta, British Columbia...

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Sacramento River

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Sacramento River. Downstream of Sacramento, the river enters the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, a vast tidal estuary and inverted river delta of over...

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Feather River

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formed by the joining of a number of tributaries that merge in an inverted river delta wetland with a complex network of irrigation ditches and drains called...

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San Joaquin River

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Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a huge inverted river delta formed by sediment deposits of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers. About 40 mi (64 km) from...

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Mekong

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China Sea. The present river morphology of the Mekong Delta developed over the last 6,000 years. During this period, the delta advanced 200 km over the...

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Cosumnes River

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Valley, emptying into the Mokelumne River in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The Cosumnes is one of very few rivers in the western Sierra without major...

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List of islands of California

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rivers to the Carquinez Strait. The Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta is an inverted delta at the juncture of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers....

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Feather Headwaters

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Oroville. The channels are a number of tributaries that merge in an inverted river delta wetland with a network of irrigation ditches and drains. From its...

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Sutlej

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the exhumation of rocks by the Indus River in Nanga Parbat, Pakistan. The Sutlej River also exposes a double inverted metamorphic gradient. There has been...

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Sutong Yangtze River Bridge

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in the development of poorer northern Jiangsu regions. The tower is an inverted Y-shaped reinforced concrete structure with one connecting girder between...

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HVDC converter station

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transformers step up the voltage of the AC supply network. Using a star-to-delta or "wye-delta" connection of the transformer windings, the converter can operate...

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Canonical transformation

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{\textstyle \delta a(12)={(\delta \varepsilon )}^{T}\,J\,d\varepsilon ={(M\delta \eta )}^{T}\,J\,Md\eta ={(\delta \eta )}^{T}\,M^{T}JM\,d\eta ={(\delta \eta )}^{T}\...

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Kutai Basin

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Basin fill is ongoing in the lower Kutai basin, as the modern Mahakam River delta progrades east across the continental shelf of Borneo. The Cenozoic plate...

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Tropical desert

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and rock material. Inverted topography forms in areas previously at a low elevation, such as deltaic distributary systems and river systems. They are left...

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Transmission tower

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V-shaped body with a horizontal arm on the top, which forms an inverted delta. Larger Delta towers usually use two guard cables. Portal pylons are widely...

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Pacific Flyway

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of California. Suisun Marsh, next to the exit of the inverted Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, has protected portions. San Francisco Bay, protected...

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Marginal product of labor

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{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}MC&={\frac {\Delta VC}{\Delta Q}}\\[6pt]\Delta VC&=w\,\Delta L\\[6pt]&\Delta L/\Delta Q\end{aligned}}} (the change in quantity...

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List of Mayday episodes

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stabilizer jams and breaks from its control system. The aircraft dives inverted into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 88 on board. The stabilizer failed...

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Northwest Airlines

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in the United States from 1926 until its merger with Delta Air Lines in 2010. The merger made Delta the largest airline in the world until the American...

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