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Yellow River Delta, China

China’s Yellow River, or Huang He, travels through soft plateaus of silt, picking up a massive sediment load on its journey. The sediment carried by the river has reshaped China’s coast, adding several hundred square kilometers of land.


NASA image created by Jesse Allen, using Landsat data provided by the United States Geological Survey. Caption by Michon Scott.

Published January 4, 2009
Data acquired May 2, 2000

Sources:
Landsat 4 > MSS
Landsat 7 > ETM+