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The Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, or California Delta, is an expansive inland river delta and estuary in Northern California. The delta is formed at the western edge of the Central Valley by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and lies just east of where the rivers enter Suisun Bay , which flows into San Francisco ...
A river delta is so named because the shape of the Nile Delta approximates the triangular uppercase Greek letter delta.The triangular shape of the Nile Delta was known to audiences of classical Athenian drama; the tragedy Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus refers to it as the "triangular Nilotic land", though not as a "delta". [8]
Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta (4 C, 48 P) V. ... Pages in category "Landforms of San Joaquin County, California" The following 3 pages are in this category ...
Northern California usually refers to the state's northernmost 48 counties. The main population centers of Northern California include San Francisco Bay Area (which includes the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, and the largest city of the region, San Jose), and Sacramento (the state capital) as well as its metropolitan area.
A picture of California's Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, with Suisun Bay at left-center and the Carquinez Strait at far left. River deltas typically form on flat, coastal floodplains: the narrow end located at the point where a river fans out and deposits sediment in a region extending outward into the body of water which the river empties.
Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta (4 C, 48 P) V. ... Pages in category "Landforms of Sacramento County, California" The following 4 pages are in this category, out ...
Lists of landforms of California (27 P) + Landforms of Northern California (8 C) Landforms of Southern California (17 C, 6 P) B. Beaches of California (4 C, 2 P)
Lists of Landforms of California. Pages in category "Lists of landforms of California" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.