Editing River delta (section)

=== Inland deltas ===
[[File:OkavangoDelta.png|thumb|right|Okavango Delta]]
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In rare cases, the river delta is located inside a large valley and is called an [[inverted river delta]]. Sometimes a river divides into multiple branches in an inland area, only to rejoin and continue to the sea. Such an area is called an ''inland delta'', and often occurs on former lake beds. The term was first coined by [[Alexander von Humboldt]] for the middle reaches of the [[Orinoco River]], which he visited in 1800.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Meade |first1=Robert H. |title=Suspended sediments of the modern Amazon and Orinoco rivers |journal=Quaternary International |date=January 1994 |volume=21 |pages=29–39 |doi=10.1016/1040-6182(94)90019-1|bibcode=1994QuInt..21...29M }}</ref> Other prominent examples include the [[Inner Niger Delta]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dadson |first1=Simon J. |last2=Ashpole |first2=Ian |last3=Harris |first3=Phil |last4=Davies |first4=Helen N. |last5=Clark |first5=Douglas B. |last6=Blyth |first6=Eleanor |last7=Taylor |first7=Christopher M. |title=Wetland inundation dynamics in a model of land surface climate: Evaluation in the Niger inland delta region |journal=Journal of Geophysical Research |date=4 December 2010 |volume=115 |issue=D23 |pages=D23114 |doi=10.1029/2010JD014474|bibcode=2010JGRD..11523114D }}</ref> [[Peace–Athabasca Delta]],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Leconte |first1=Robert |last2=Pietroniro |first2=Alain |last3=Peters |first3=Daniel L. |last4=Prowse |first4=Terry D. |title=Effects of flow regulation on hydrologic patterns of a large, inland delta |journal=Regulated Rivers: Research & Management |date=2001 |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=51–65 |doi=10.1002/1099-1646(200101/02)17:1<51::AID-RRR588>3.0.CO;2-V|doi-access=free }}</ref> the [[Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta]],<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Hart |first1=Jeff |first2=John |last2=Hunter |title=Restoring Slough and River Banks with Biotechnical Methods in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta |journal=Ecological Restoration |volume=22 |number=4 |year=2004 |pages=262–68 |doi=10.3368/er.22.4.262 |jstor=43442774.|bibcode=2004EcoRe..22..262H |s2cid=84968414 }}</ref> and the [[Sistan]] delta of Iran.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=van Beek |first1=Eelco |last2=Bozorgy |first2=Babak |last3=Vekerdy |first3=Zoltán |last4=Meijer |first4=Karen |title=Limits to agricultural growth in the Sistan Closed Inland Delta, Iran |journal=Irrigation and Drainage Systems |date=June 2008 |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=131–143 |doi=10.1007/s10795-008-9045-7|s2cid=111027461 |doi-access=free }}</ref> The [[Danube]] has one in the valley on the Slovak–Hungarian border between [[Bratislava]] and [[Iža]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Petráš |first1=Rudolf |last2=Mecko |first2=Julian |last3=Oszlányi |first3=Július |last4=Petrášová |first4=Viera |last5=Jamnická |first5=Gabriela |title=Landscape of Danube inland-delta and its potential of poplar bioenergy production |journal=Biomass and Bioenergy |date=August 2013 |volume=55 |pages=68–72 |doi=10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.05.022|bibcode=2013BmBe...55...68P }}</ref>

In some cases, a river flowing into a flat arid area splits into channels that evaporate as it progresses into the desert. The [[Okavango Delta]] in [[Botswana]] is one example.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Neuenschwander |first1=A.L. |last2=Crawford |first2=M.M. |last3=Ringrose |first3=S. |title=IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium |chapter=Monitoring of seasonal flooding in the Okavango Delta using EO-1 data |date=2002 |volume=6 |pages=3124–3126 |doi=10.1109/IGARSS.2002.1027105|isbn=0-7803-7536-X |s2cid=33284178 }}</ref> See [[endorheic basin]].