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    Mississippi River Delta is the confluence of the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, southeastern United States. The river delta is...
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    The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi...
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    340 miles (3,766 km) to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains all or parts...
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    The Mississippi River System, also referred to as the Western Rivers, is a mostly riverine network of the United States which includes the Mississippi River...
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    form the river delta. Over time, this single channel builds a deltaic lobe (such as the bird's-foot of the Mississippi or Ural river deltas), pushing...
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    Mississippi, Louisiana). The plain is divided into (a) the Mississippi River Delta in the southern half of Louisiana and (b) the upper Mississippi Embayment...
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    Mississippi Delta may refer to: Mississippi Alluvial Plain, the entire alluvial plain of the Mississippi River, from the river mouth to southern Illinois...
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    cotton lands of the Arkansas Delta make that area "The Deepest of the Deep South." The region runs along the Mississippi River from Eudora north to Blytheville...
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    Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues. It originated in the Mississippi Delta and is regarded as a regional variant of country blues...
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    due to natural forces inherent to river deltas. The Atchafalaya River meanders south as a channel of the Mississippi, through extensive levees and floodways...
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    Delta Queen is an American sternwheel steamboat. She is known for cruising the major rivers that constitute the tributaries of the Mississippi River,...
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    The Indus River Delta forms where the Indus River flows into the Arabian Sea, mostly in the southern Sindh province of Pakistan with a small portion in...
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    Teche, and Lafourche lobes) of the Mississippi River Delta Plain that formed south Louisiana, and active delta lobe development is currently occurring...
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    continuation of the fluvial sediments of the Mississippi River Delta to its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois. The current sedimentary...
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  • alphabet: "Delta"), the fourth letter in the Latin alphabet River delta, at a river mouth Delta Air Lines, US Delta may also refer to: Delta, British Columbia...
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    across the Mississippi River in the Arkansas Delta and the nearby city of Memphis, Tennessee. The earliest Chinese settlers in the Mississippi Delta were laborers...
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    example of gilbert deltaic lobes is at the gilbert delta of Lake Bonneville. David E. Frazier. "Recent Deltaic Deposits of Mississippi River: Their Development...
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    Mississippi Delta, Native American settlements and agricultural fields were developed on the natural levees, higher ground in the proximity of rivers...
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  • Arkansas The Mississippi Delta, the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers The Nile...
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    The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in the history of the United States, with 27,000 square miles (70,000 km2) inundated...
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    boundary of the county is formed by the Mississippi River. The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians had occupied the Delta region for thousands of years prior to...
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    considered by some to mark the southern boundary of what is called the Mississippi Delta, a broad floodplain that was cultivated for cotton plantations before...
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  • at the mouth of the Mississippi River. It empties into the Gulf of Mexico at the southwesternmost tip of the Mississippi River Delta. It lies in Plaquemines...
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    000 sq mi) in size, it is one of the largest deltas in the world. It is larger than the Mississippi River Delta (which varies between 32,400 and 122,000 square...
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    Bayou (category Rivers of Florida)
    Coast region of the southern United States, especially in the Mississippi River Delta, though they also exist elsewhere. A bayou is often an anabranch...
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    Tallahatchie River, a tributary of the Yazoo River in the eastern part of the Mississippi Delta. The community has ZIP code 38945 in the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan...
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    the area of historic cotton plantations and culture known as the Mississippi Delta. This area was occupied by indigenous peoples for thousands of years...
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  • Delta is a ghost town in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States. Once a thriving port on the Mississippi River, Delta today is covered by farmland...
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  • wheel driven river steamboat Mississippi Queen (board game), a 1997 German board game Mississippi River Delta Queen Queen of the Mississippi (2015 ship)...
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    stability of the shorelines of wetland areas and waterways of the Mississippi River Delta, and the die-off of reed beds is believed to accelerate coastal...
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