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This kind of thing has happened several times in China in recorded history with the Yellow River, to the point where sometimes the river has flowed into the oce
by douche 10y ago
This kind of thing has happened several times in China in recorded history with the Yellow River, to the point where sometimes the river has flowed into the ocean north of the Shandong peninsula and sometimes south of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_River#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_River#History
- jonknee 10y agoRivers re-route themselves frequently, the difference is cause (sediment for the Yellow River, melting glacier for the Slims).
- mannykannot 10y agoThe re-routing of rivers within their deltas, due to sediment deposition, is how deltas get to be delta-shaped. The thwarted (at least for now) capture of the Mississippi by the Atchafalaya, mentioned on another comment, would have been another example of this.
- lostlogin 10y agoThe Amazon is another example of having flow reversal - presumably things got very damp as water levels sorted themselves out.