Descriptor English: | Delta | ||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Delta
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Delta | ||||
Descriptor French: | Delta (D'un Fleuve) | ||||
Entry term(s): |
River Mouth |
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Tree number(s): |
SP8.473.654.482.092 |
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Scope note: | Triangular configuration of a section of coast open to the sea, created by the alluvial deposits at the mouth of a river, often, but not always, traversed by its branches. Example: the Nile delta. (Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990) |
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DeCS ID: | 35023 | ||||
Unique ID: | DDCS035023 | ||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents |
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Scope note | Triangular configuration of a section of coast open to the sea, created by the alluvial deposits at the mouth of a river, often, but not always, traversed by its branches. Example: the Nile delta. (Material V - Gunn, S.W.A. Multilingual Dictionary of Disaster Medicine and International Relief, 1990) |
Preferred term | Delta |
Entry term(s) |
River Mouth |
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