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Where a river gives up, spreads out, and dies famous instead of quietly.
means The fan-shaped stretch of land and channels formed where a river splits into smaller streams and deposits its sediment as it meets the sea or a lake.
from Named for its shape: the ancient Greek letter delta (Δ) is a triangle, and the Nile's mouth fans out into roughly that shape as it meets the Mediterranean. Greek writers, including Herodotus, used 'delta' for the Nile's silty triangle, and the term later broadened to describe any river mouth that splits and spreads the same way — the letter lending its outline to the landscape.
- name origin
- Greek letter delta looks like the triangle shape
- nile's gift
- built egypt's farmland from 7000 years of silt
- growth rate
- mississippi delta added land for millennia, now shrinking fast
- biggest one
- ganges delta spans bangladesh, size of greece