Flood risk of natural and embanked landscapes on the Ganges-Brahmaputra tidal delta plain
The Kernave Fm has been interpreted as shallow marine tidal flat and tidal bar deposits intercalated by tide-dominated deltaic formations (Kleesment 1997) or as being deposited in a tide-dominated deltaic setting that consists of prodelta mudstones, delta front tidal bar deposits intercalated by delta plain
tidal flat and distributary channel deposits, which is also the characteristic depositional environment for the Arukula Fm (Tanavsuu-Milkeviciene & Plink-Bjorklund 2009).
The Arlington Archosaur Site preserves a diverse coastal ecosystem within the interbedded coals, mudstones and sand lenses of a delta plain
Bangladesh lies in a vast fertile delta plain
fed by three of the largest rivers in the world, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, and the Meghna.
There's just not enough sediment to sustain the delta plain
," study author Michael Blum of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, told National Geographic News.
Third, formed more than 15,000 years ago from an ice sheet during the last interglacial period, the Mississippi Delta plain
was "influenced by variations in sediment and meltwater discharge" (Rittenour, Blum, & Goble, 2007).
Along the Louisiana coast, in the delta plain
, much of the land is only a few feet above sea level.
In fact, the estuaries in the delta plain
are considered perhaps the most productive in the country.
On southern Roberts Bank, this sediment distribution pattern changes from a dominant sandy delta plain
that continues and coarsens well out onto the delta slope, but becomes finer grained at the base of the slope (Fig.
The southern area of Jiangsu province belongs to the delta plain
of the Yangtze River or low mountain mound terrain.
The delta plain
where the wetlands are located formed during the Holocene (10,000 years before present).
Due to the size of the contaminated region--an area roughly covering the upper and lower Ganges delta plains
of West Bengal, India, and the lower Ganges delta plain
of Bangladesh--it is widely accepted that the source of the arsenic contamination is geological.