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WHERE IS THIS?
The Yellow River reaches the Bohai Sea through a delta that likes to travel. Sediment, engineering and channel change keep redrawing the mouth.
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THE WALKING RIVER
Tracking the movement of The Yellow River Delta, 1984–2024 (it can't seem to stay put).
How do you draw a river that refuses to keep one shape?
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WHAT A SATELLITE SEES
From above, the delta reads as a field of water, silt, reclaimed land and embankments. Its visible shape depends on when you look and which threshold you use.
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WHY ONE RIVER LINE FAILS
A conventional map chooses one river trace. Here the useful signal is persistence, intermittency and change through time. I wanted to ask where water repeatedly occupied the delta rather than choose one outline and call it the river.
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WHAT THE PLATE MEASURES
The Plate asks three related questions. Epochs show how often water appeared within each period. Persistence shows how durable that presence was across the full record. Transitions show where wet and dry repeatedly exchanged places.
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