Delta Memory

Cut a channel, raise a bank, or plant marsh. Then release years. Water follows the present; sediment remembers every earlier choice.

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Brush reach River pulse Sea rise

Paint directly on the land. Space advances ten years.

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The delta is young. Its easiest path still points straight ahead.

Try cutting a side channel, then advance. A shortcut may capture the river—and starve the coast it abandons.