Talk:River delta

message: Deltas come in a multitude of plan-view shapes, as their characteristics are determined by the balance between the energy and sediment load of a separation system and the quality of the ocean. Various ways of classifying deltas have been devised. One of the more widely used schemes is based on deltaic form as it reflects controlling energy factors, which means that its a river that flows out to sea but as it drages dirt and debris from the river bed it blocks up the exit course wich makes the river flood and find or create a new river to let the water flow out of this provides a shallow swamp wich provides fresh water but still alows plantlife to grow their so if your planning a resourt it would be goog to let cattle go and graze in the delta. But the bad thing is that when it floods it can wipe out wildlife, Indogar villages and cattle. --Gcpeoples (talk) 08:38, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Delta shapes

message: This seems a strange idea. The two have very little in common. It is true that a River delta could be called an outfall but so could an Estuary. It is clear that the Outfall article, though still short, is developing away from any connection with a natural river mouth. (RJP 22:00, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I also agree that it shouldn't be merged, since, for instance, river delta shouldn't be merged with estuary.  --Interiot 21:21, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

text: I also agree that it shouldn't be merged, since, for instance, river delta shouldn't be merged with estuary. 70.73.73.10 (talk) 02:48, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merger with [[Outfall]]

message: I found this article a little confusing.  Right at the start it states that a delta is a triangular land formation.  If you look at the examples or read the discusion it becomes clear that there are two types of river delta, one charachterised by the delta shape and one more like the Mississippi.  I am still not clear what kind of river delta the mississppi is but the article doesn't really warn me that there is a distinction.  Furthermore the first paragraph directs me to estuaries where I learn that river deltas and liman form towards non tidal seas but the list of deltas here includes some that flow into tidal seas (I think anyway the gangees flows into the indian ocean which is tidal as far as I know).  I am in no way a geographer and am really not confident to alter the article, I expect my understanding is flawed.Aach 11:19, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''Confused''' 

message: I removed the Amazon as one of the world's notable rivers with a delta as it does not in fact have one. The Amazon enters the Atlantic Ocean in an enormous estuary; it does not show the deposition of sediment and splitting into distributaries characteristic of a delta.
Here is a quote from the article about the Amazon:
'The bore is the reason the Amazon does not have a delta; the ocean rapidly carries away the vast volume of silt carried by the Amazon, making it impossible for a delta to grow. It also has a very large tide sometimes reaching 20 feet.'
Booshank 13:23, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Amazon does not have a delta 

message: Bold text i need the differntbtypes of deltas along with diagrams, for my geography home work. can i get some help?? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.252.26.43 (talk) 18:07, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  types of deltas 

message: Can anyone tell me what the difference between a River delta and Alluvial fan is? If there is not a difference then perhaps the two articles should be merged? --Daleh T 07:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Really really late reply: an alluvial fan is a steep, coarse-grained, often debris-flow and flash flood dominated landform. Deltas have a shallow surface slope, and are fine-grained. Deltas also always extend into bodies of water; alluvial fans do not necessarily terminate in water bodies, and when they do, they are called alluvial fan deltas. Awickert (talk) 18:57, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similarity with [[Alluvial fan]] 

message: i found the main overview of the article a little confusing. i would have appreciated it a lot more if i got a good overview of what a delta is (which is all i am looking for) by simply reading a well phrased few sentences. 
the above is not mention much at all.
personally i would have expected the above list to be clearly mentioned in the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.215.57.41 (talk) 13:32, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: this article does not contain enough information

message: Why are the Truckee and Carson rivers listed as "rivers with notable deltas"? Even if these rivers has deltas, they can hardly be compared to such rivers as the Nile, Mississipi and/or Ganges. All wikipedians who are not familiar with the geography of the American mid-west has probably never heard of the Truckee nor Carson rivers, so including these rivers in the list of rivers with notable deltas seems a bit strange. Besides, the Wikipedia articles on the Truckee and Carson don't mention the existence of a delta at all. DaMatriX (talk) 16:10, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable deltas 

message: I searched Delta and couldn't find this, had to search "River Delta"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Snazzyy (talk • contribs) 01:25, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's listed on the delta disambig page; so many meanings for delta that I'm afraid river delta is the most abstract we can do here. Awickert (talk) 21:43, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tags 

message: I've heard the area around the mouth of the Hudson River called an estuary. It seems to me that the situation is a bit more complicated than simply "delta vs. estuary" (even without the human settlement on top of it). Apparently, the glaciers started it by bulldozing many of the valleys and much of the land - and then coming to a halt in this area. When they melted, the area flooded. However, rivers, tides, etc. kept up the act of depositing sediments. So, by the time the Dutch showed up, we have not only the hills expected of glacial moraines, but we also have plenty of sediments trailing them and a wad of islands (Manhattan, which is an island partly because of a sort of canyon between it and the Bronx, and whose geography may have more to do with glaciers than sediment, but has some sediment on its sides and southern end; Wards Island, Randalls Island, Coney Island, parts of Long Island, Liberty Island, Governors Island, etc.) Humans complicated things by flattening some pieces of land and landfilling in other areas. In addition, there are plenty of marshes and former marshland in the area, and there's also Sandy Hook. So what exactly is this creature, a delta, a fjord, just an estuary? 68.36.120.7 (talk) 16:46, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hudson River 

message: The article mentions that deltas are classified according to the dominant water force on them: river, tidal, and wave. However only the tidal and wave types are discussed under the section distinguishing the types. Why no mention at all of this elusive third category? 68.227.164.229 (talk) 00:12, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Types of deltas 

message: Without explanatory captions, the first two photos are not helpful. I cannot even identify the triangular shape referred to in the first photo. WmDKing (talk) 10:35, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usefulness of Photos