Where the Mobile, Spanish, Tensaw, Apalachee and Blakeley rivers flow into Mobile Bay stands an incredible facility for outdoor recreation, conservation and land stewardship in Alabama: 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center.
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The Nile delta (shaped by waves from the Mediterranean Sea) and Senegal delta (shaped by waves from the Atlantic Ocean) are both wave-dominated deltas. Tide-dominated deltas usually form in areas with a large tidal range, or area between high tide and low tide.
The Triassic Boreal Ocean delta plain, whose deposits are currently located in the Barents Sea, is around 230 million years old and is the largest delta plain, modern or past, known to exist. “We always knew it was large. There was little doubt about that,” Tore Klausen, lead researcher on the discovery, told Eos.
The largest inland delta in the world, the Okavango Delta is the most unexpected wonder – water present in a desert. The broad Okavango River sinks into the dry sands of the Kalahari Desert, creating a lush and waterlogged oasis with crystal clear lagoons and channels, reeded islands and fertile floodplains.
A delta is a wetland area that forms as river waters empty into a larger body of water. Often, deltas look triangular in shape and sometimes they're even described as looking like a fan.
The Nile delta in the Mediterranean Sea, the Mississippi delta in the Gulf of Mexico, the Yellow River delta in the Bohai Sea and the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta in the Bay of Bengal rank among the most famous.
The Amazon River Estuary Bioregion, located in the Southern America (Neotropical) realm, includes a huge river delta formed at the end of the Amazon River's 4000-mile journey to the sea in northern Brazil, where it meets up with the Tocantins River, encompassing the Marajó Archipelago.