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Give Reasons:
Silt deposits are less at estuaries than deltas.
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Solution
- Deltas form at the mouths of large rivers when sediments and silt accumulate.
- As sediments continue to accumulate, the course of the river may even be changed.
- Estuary is formed where the rivers meet the sea.
- Deposition of silt by the river is not possible here in the estuaries like delta as if the waves keep on eroding the deposits.
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