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Definition of Deltas
1. delta [n] - See also: delta
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deltas
Literary usage of Deltas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1920)
"deltas since the maritime belt, (which is at least three miles wide), ...
Similar to alluvions are deltas. Delta is the name for a tract of land at the ..."
2. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1893)
"I have described them under the name of glacial marine deltas. ... The structure
of the larger deltas is often complicated, since sometimes more than one ..."
3. Rivers of North America: A Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and Geology by Israel Cook Russell (1898)
"The absence of conspicuous deltas about their mouths is due to currents in the
... Effects of Changes in the Elevation of the Land on the Growth of deltas. ..."
4. The Story of the Prairies, Or, The Landscape Geology of North Dakota: Or by Daniel Everett Willard (1902)
"Three deltas were formed on the western side of Lake Agassiz on that part of ...
These are known as the Sheyenne. the Elk Valley, and the Pembina deltas. ..."
5. The Story of the Prairies: Or, The Landscape Geology of North Dakota by Daniel Everett Willard (1907)
"Three deltas were formed on the western side of Lake Agassiz on that part of ...
These are known as the Sheyenne, the Elk Valley, and the Pembina deltas. ..."
6. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"deltas deltas are formed where streams enter either lakes or seas. ... Growth of
deltas. — The rate of growth of a delta depends upon (i) the amount of ..."
7. Final Report by New Jersey Geological Survey (1902)
"deltas.—Again, at many points within this area there are bodies of gravel which
simulate deltas. In few cases is the delta form unequivocally developed, ..."
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