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Published online 10 November 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.1077
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Global warming won't affect all deltas
Rising sea levels could submerge Mississippi Delta but leave other systems intact.
Whether river deltas become swamped by rising sea levels will depend on a multitude of factors, including the type of soil and the tectonic action of any nearby plates, say researchers.
"In coastal systems we have to think about combined impacts," said oceanographer Richard Feely of the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, Washington, at this year's meeting of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation in Portland, Oregon on 3 November.
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