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The Sculpting of Ebro Delta
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The Sculpting of Ebro Delta

Spain's Ebro Delta has recently experienced tremendous shape-shifting.

Published Mar 13, 2018

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Mackenzie Meets Beaufort
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Mackenzie Meets Beaufort

Canada’s largest and longest river delivers vast amounts of fresh water and sediment to the sea.

Published Aug 6, 2017

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Yellow River Delta, 1989 and 2009
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Yellow River Delta, 1989 and 2009

Chinese engineers changed the main channel through the delta, changing the shape of the land at the river’s mouth.

Published Jan 27, 2010

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Boteti River, Botswana
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Boteti River, Botswana

In September 2010, water again flowed through this riverbed after several dry years.

Published Oct 8, 2010

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Ural River Delta, Kazakhstan
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Ural River Delta, Kazakhstan

The Ural River is one of the two major rivers (the other is the Volga) that empty into the northern coast of the Caspian Sea, creating extensive wetlands. This image shows details of the Ural’s tree-like (or “digitate”) delta. This type of delta forms naturally when wave action is low, and sediment content in the river is high. New distributary channels form in the delta when the river breaches natural levees created by sediment deposition. The long main channel of the river in this image and several of the distibutary channels are too regular to be entirely natural, however. Like the famous Mississippi River delta in the United States, the Ural River delta has been significantly modified to reduce flooding and divert water.

Published Jun 6, 2005

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Mackenzie River Delta, Canada
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Mackenzie River Delta, Canada

Canada’s Mackenzie River, the country’s longest, spills out of Great Slave Lake, just north of the border between Alberta and Northwest Territories.

Published Dec 20, 2007

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Kuiseb River Reaches the Sea
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Kuiseb River Reaches the Sea

Acquired April 2, 2011, and February 27, 2011, these natural-color images show rising waters on the Kuiseb River, which flowed all the way to the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in decades.

Published Apr 12, 2011

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Indus River, Pakistan
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Indus River, Pakistan

Between 1992 and 2009, a section of the lower Indus River changes course following the formation of an oxbow lake.

Published May 9, 2010

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The Big Muddy, Western Edition
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The Big Muddy, Western Edition

Flowing past the city of Vancouver, the Fraser River delivers a thick plume of sediment to the Strait of Georgia.

Published Mar 14, 2012

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A Blackwater River Meets the Sea
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A Blackwater River Meets the Sea

A satellite image offers inky evidence of the organic-rich freshwater that the Suwannee River delivers to the Gulf of Mexico.

Published Oct 27, 2018

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Connecticut River Oxbow
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Connecticut River Oxbow

Floods and new infrastructure have long since separated the distinctive bend in the river that was portrayed by landscape painter Thomas Cole in 1836.

Published Oct 15, 2017

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Mississippi Meanders
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Mississippi Meanders

Published Aug 31, 2006

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Snowfall on the Selenga River Delta, Russia
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Snowfall on the Selenga River Delta, Russia

The Selenga River Delta, which stretches out into Russia’s Lake Baikal, is carved by an intricate network of channels and levees and surrounded by marshlands.

Published Nov 28, 2011

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Lay of the Land Between Old River and the Mississippi
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Lay of the Land Between Old River and the Mississippi

This model of the land elevation between the Mississippi, the Atchafalaya, and the Old River show the uphill fight to control river flow.

Published Jun 4, 2011

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