delta plain

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By the route of the Atchafalaya, the distance across the delta plain was a hundred and forty-five miles—well under half the length of the route of the master stream.

From Scientific American • Mar. 3, 2018

As a final penalty, irrigation projects on the delta plain have allowed a moisture-loving snail to thrive.

From Time Magazine Archive

A closer view of these graves in the same delta plain is given in the lower section of Fig.

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)

The forests growing upon these islands, which rise from the surface of the delta plain, are in picturesque contrast to the fields dotted with stacks of grain.

From The Western United States A Geographical Reader by Fairbanks, Harold W. (Harold Wellman)

As we wound through this great delta plain toward Shanghai, the city of foreign concessions to all nationalities, the first striking feature was the "graves of the fathers", of "the ancestors".

From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by King, F. H. (Franklin Hiram)