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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Modified link of Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Deltas and Estuaries. | Oct 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - Developed river deltas: are they sustainable? | Jun 26, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Geological Society of America - Perilous Future for River Deltas (PDF). | Jan 22, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Restore the Mississippi River Delta - Anatomy of a Delta: The Foundation of New Land. | Nov 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: IOPscience - Environmental Research - Developed river deltas: are they sustainable? | Sep 04, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: PNAS - Entropy and optimality in river deltas. | Jul 12, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Rivers, Estuaries, and Deltas. | May 18, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Geographic - Delta. | Apr 13, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Geosciences LibreTexts - Deltas and Estuaries. | Jan 23, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: One Geology - Kids - Delta. | Oct 09, 2017 | ||
| Added that Herodotus mentioned that the Ionians used the term "delta" to refer to the Nile region. |
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Sep 21, 2016 | |
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - Science - Delta. | Nov 30, 2011 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Mar 26, 2008 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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