As the submarine delta grows near to the level of the sea the distributaries of the river cover it with subaerial deposits altogether similar to those of the flood plain, of which indeed the subaerial delta is the prolongation.
Both owe their origin to a sudden check in the velocity of the river, compelling a deposit of the load; both are triangular in outline, the apex pointing upstream; and both are traversed by distributaries which build up all parts in turn.
The Mississippi has built a delta of twelve thousand three hundred square miles, and is pushing the natural embankments of its chief distributaries into the Gulf at a maximum rate of a mile in sixteen years.
Tributaries and Distributaries of a Fan-Building Stream] Where rivers descend from a mountainous region upon the plain they may build alluvial fans of exceedingly gentle slope.
It receives the water on the lower slope of the Himalayas, and runs along the Doab, or high lands between the Jumna and Ganges, throwing out distributaries at intervals.
Over the conical slopes of the delta surface the stream is broken up into numerous distributaries which divide and subdivide as do the roots of a tree.
Between the levees of neighboring distributariesthere are peculiar saucer-shaped depressions of the country which easily become filled with water.
These barriers cut off the re-entrants between neighboring distributaries so as to produce lagoons or lakes (Fig.
Map of the distributaries of neighboring streams which emerge at the western base of the Sierra Nevadas in California (after W.
From the divergence of the distributariesupon the delta plain the Greek capital letter Δ is suggested and has supplied the name for these deposits.
In the Mohammedan countries described as wadi, these distributaries upon dry deltas are on the Pacific coast of the United States referred to as “washes” (Fig.
Delta lakes formed at the mouth of the Mississippi through the junction of the levees of radiating distributaries with the shore of the estuary (after Berghaus).
Where large deltas push out from the shore into the open sea, the levees which border the individual distributaries are attacked by the waves and their materials are transported by the shore currents and built into barriers.
Distributaries of the foothills superimposed upon an earlier series (after W.
Whereas in its upper reaches the river with its tributary streams appears in the plan like a tree and its branches, in the delta region the stream, by dividing into diverging channels called distributaries (Fig.
These three western distributaries are known as the Nadia rivers, and are important, not only as great highways for internal traffic, but also as the headwaters of the Hugli.
The stream now known as the Hugli represents three western deltaic distributaries of the Ganges--viz.
The Bhagirathi and Jalangi unite at Nadia, above the point of their junction with the lower waters of the Matabhanga, which has taken the name of the Churni before the point of junction and thrown out new distributaries of its own.
The first of these distributaries now departs from the main channel at a distance of 200 miles from the Gulf of Mexico, and farther seaward several other divisions occur (Fig.
The distributaries of streams, or the separate channels into which they divide on deltas, etc.
The Yukon begins to divide into separate channels, several of which enter the sea as independent distributaries at a distance of about 150 miles from the outer border of its delta.
This extension of the stream and deposition of silt by its distributaries have added about 1,000 square miles to the land.
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