Cross-posted at Highly Allochthonous The geo-image bonanza of this month’s Accretionary Wedge gives me a good reason to make good on a promise I made a few months ago. I promised to write about what can happen on the flanks of Pacific Northwest volcanoes when a warm, heavy rainfall hits …
For some reason the last few days have seen me browsing the semi-frozen areas of the Earth and in my search for the perfect thermokarst landscape, I’ve run across some really nice deltas. I don’t know anything about the one below other than its location in far northwestern Saskatchewan, but …
The Chippewa River drains the glaciated terrains of north-central Wisconsin including major outwash plains from the margins of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The sand carried by the Chippewa is a major sediment source for the Upper Mississippi River for tens of miles downstream. The Chippewa forms a beautiful delta into …
I spent a summer in college staring at maps and aerial photographs of the Rio Grande delta in Texas and Mexico. Maybe now I can get some use out of it. I was working with J.D. Stanley at the Smithsonian’s NMNH and he pointed me to the apparently high sinuosity …
Hunting for a Where on Google Earth location a while ago I ran across this wonderful tidally-influenced delta on the northwest coast of Madagascar. It is the mouth of the Betsiboka River and just north of the river mouth is the second largest port in Madagascar. What struck me about …