Sentence examples for extensive deltas from inspiring English sources

Several rivers form extensive deltas.

More than 20 rivers drain into the Gulf of Carpentaria; they wind profusely in their lower courses and have extensive deltas.

Barramundi are most abundant in rivers with substantial lake and swamp systems, and with extensive deltas, an obvious characteristic of the Gulf of Papua and the adjacent Papuan coast.

In the dry season it is sometimes reduced to a succession of stagnant ponds; its floodwaters empty into the Chari in an extensive delta.

The southern part consists of a fertile plain extending to the Gulf of Venice and drained chiefly by the Po, Adige, Brenta, Piave, and Livenza rivers, the mouths of which form an extensive delta area with shore lagoons.

Major palaeoenvironmental changes include the rapid landward migration of a barrier-estuary lagoon system during the Early–Middle Holocene (transgressive systems tract—TST), followed barrier-estuary lagoongradation in the lasystem0 yr (highstanduringems thect—HST).

The Ganges valley divides into three major parts: to the west is the Ganges-Yamuna Doab (the land area that is formed by the confluence of the two rivers); east of the confluence lies the middle Ganges valley, in which population tends to increase and cultivation of rice predominates; and to the southeast lies the extensive delta of the combined Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers.

Vietnam's principal physiographic features are the Annamese Cordillera (French: Chaîne Annamitique; Vietnamese: Nui Truong Son), extending generally from northwest to southeast in central Vietnam and dominating the interior, and two extensive alluvial deltas formed by the Red (Hong Riverr in the north and the Mekong (Cuu Long) River in the south.

Tidal embayments are characterized by a wide variety of landscape features, often including either complex tidal channel networks or extensive flood-tidal deltas.

Reeves Channel form became progressively more sinuous, and extensive flood-tide delta shoaling areas developed, since groyne array installation.

This gene encodes for a protein, FaFAD1, with extensive similarity to delta-twelve fatty acid desaturases, enzymes that catalyze the regioselective introduction of a double bond at the Δ12 position during lipid biosynthesis [ 34].