The deposits of river deltas can hold important information about environmental changes in Earth's history, such as variations in sea level, sediment supply, or tectonics (e.g., . Sea-level change is considered to be especially important in influencing erosion and deposition in river deltas; the sedimentary records of ancient deltas have been used to reconstruct local or global variations in sea-level (e.g.
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