Earth movements in the delta of the rhone
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ABSTRACT DELTAS are essentially areas of instability. The very existence of a large delta is dependent on changes of level of the land, and not merely a general subsidence, but a special
local sinking of the deltaic region in comparison with the surrounding land. Nor is this all, for there can be few deltas, if any, in which the general movement in a downward direction has
not been interrupted at intervals by one in the opposite direction, and in which more or less extensive areas of upraised alluvium cannot be found. To this rule the delta of the Rhone is no
exception, but there is no other instance in which the amount of this change can be measured, or the date fixed at which it took place, with so close a degree of accuracy as can be done for
some of the changes which have taken place at the mouth of the Rhone. Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution
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RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE OLDHAM, R. Earth Movements in the Delta of the Rhone. _Nature_ 125, 601–604 (1930).
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