DELTA IMAGES
Below are a few images of deltas that I did not have time to show in class.
Be sure to also look at (and think about and understand) figures provided in
the class handout and in the text book.
Mississippi Delta:
Above: Landsat image of the Mississippi delta. Note new Orleans directly south
of Lake Pontchartrain.
Above: Active lobe of the Mississippi delta, located southeast of New Orleans
(see previous image)
Above: Images of eastern Mississippi Delta, before and after Hurricane Katrina
(2005). Note large inundated areas in the "after" image.
Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta:
Above: The country of Bangladesh lies almost entirely within this vast delta
system, and is therefore especially vulnerable to sea-level rise.