{"id":287,"date":"2010-04-24T11:47:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T16:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hydrogeo.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/24\/delta-upon-delta\/"},"modified":"2010-04-24T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T16:47:21","slug":"delta-upon-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/delta-upon-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta\u00a0upon\u00a0Delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<p>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&#8217;ve run across some really nice deltas. I don&#8217;t know anything about the one below other than its location in far northwestern Saskatchewan, but it looks to me like this river had built a beautiful fan delta only to see the lake shoreline dramatically change (perhaps as a result of isostatic rebound?) triggering the building of not one, but two, new fan deltas like Mickey Mouse ears on the margins of the old one.<\/p>\n<p>The image below is from Google Earth. Here&#8217;s the Flash Earth permanent link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashearth.com\/?lat=59.114818&amp;lon=-109.354195&amp;z=11.9&amp;r=0&amp;src=msa\">http:\/\/www.flashearth.com\/?lat=59.114818&amp;lon=-109.354195&amp;z=11.9&amp;r&#8230;<\/a><a href='http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/temp-2010-04-24\/HJdjoFgrceBxdklxCukqzHpAirIHBzzkmonsHhuCongwFoxihEzJxEHInabC\/delta-upon-delta.jpg.scaled1000.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\/getfile\/files.posterous.com\/temp-2010-04-24\/HJdjoFgrceBxdklxCukqzHpAirIHBzzkmonsHhuCongwFoxihEzJxEHInabC\/delta-upon-delta.jpg.scaled500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via web<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/geopathology.posterous.com\/delta-upon-delta\">Pathological Geomorphology<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;ve run across some really nice deltas. I don&#8217;t know anything about the one below other than its location in far northwestern Saskatchewan, but &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44,8],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geomorphology","category-rivers","tag-deltas"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"ajefferson","author_link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/author\/ajefferson\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/jefferson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}