Which of the following rivers forms the Bird Foot Delta?
Mississippi
A bird's foot delta forms when a river carrying a large load of fine silt flows into calm water with weak waves and tides. The distributaries build long, finger-like strips of land into the sea, so the delta looks like a bird's foot.
The Mississippi delta in the Gulf of Mexico is the classic example.
The Nile (written here as "Neil") forms an arcuate (fan-shaped) delta, the Ganga also forms an arcuate delta (the Sundarbans), and the Amazon has an estuary rather than a large protruding delta because of strong tides and currents.
Hence, the bird foot delta is formed by the Mississippi.
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