Deltas occur when a sediment-laden current enters an open body of water, at which point there is a reduction in the velocity of the current, resulting in rapid deposition of the sediment, as at the mouth of a river where the river discharges into the sea or a lake.
(Deltas; occur; T:when a sediment-laden current enters an open body of water, at which point there is a reduction in the velocity of the current, resulting in rapid deposition of the sediment, as at the mouth of a river) (a sediment-laden current; enters; an open body of water) (the river; discharges; into the sea or a lake; L:a river)
Deltas a sediment-laden current the river
occur enters discharges
T:when a sediment-laden current enters an open body of water, at which point there is a reduction in the velocity of the current, resulting in rapid deposition of the sediment, as at the mouth of a river
an open body of water
into the sea or a lake L:a river