Mention the word “delta,” and most people will think of an airline or a cinematic fraternity house before they think of the depositional landform found at the mouth of rivers. But, really, you should ...

Processes called erosion, mass movement and weathering break down and remove material from the coast. The material is moved along the coastline by the sea and deposited when there is energy loss.

Fluvial systems, integral to shaping terrestrial landscapes, encompass the dynamic processes by which rivers transport, sort, and deposit sediment. These processes are central to the formation of ...

At 4,130 miles (6,650 km) long, the Nile in Africa is the longest river in the world. Some people consider the Amazon in South America to be longer. This is because the many hundreds of channels that ...