Everything about Inverted River Delta totally explained
An
inverted river delta is special category of
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.
Explanation
In a typical river delta, the narrow end of the delta is located at the point where a river enters a delta, with a wide fan-shaped sedimentation region extending outward into the body of water into which the river empties. In some rare cases, the delta is located at the waterway's exit from a large, flat valley, yet still inside the valley. The sediment is dropped within the valley and the clear water then exits into a bay or the ocean, so the apex of the delta is at this exit, a configuration said to be
inverted from that usually seen. Inverted deltas typically don't last long in geological terms, since they tend to fill up with sediments rather quickly and eventually become normal deltas.
Examples
The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta
A classic example of an inverted river delta is the
Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, which lies at the confluence of the
Sacramento and
San Joaquin rivers in
California. The water from the rivers that drain the entire, large
California Central Valley exit through the
Carquinez Strait, a narrow gap in the
Coast Range. An inverted river delta exists behind this strait.
The Tagus River
Another example is the delta of the
Tagus river in Portugal, although due to sedimentation this delta is now only very partially inverted, with the valley now mostly filled with sediment. It is still about 15km wide and 25km long, compared with the 2km wide exit into the sea, and forms a large lagoon with large and very shallow sand banks which go uncovered during low tides. The delta used to be even bigger thousands of years ago.
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