Burdekin Delta
Extending from the river's mouth in Upstart Bay to Cape Bowling Green and incorporating Bowling Green Bay's southern coastline the Burdekin River Delta is primarily the result of flood-related processes discharging into the sheltered waters in the lee of the Great Barrier Reef.
While the Burdekin's outflow gives the area its name, other streams rising in the ranges behind the coast — notably the Haughton River and the Barattas — have made a significant contribution to a floodplain that includes former courses of the Burdekin. An inactive channel eunning north-
west towards the Haughton River probably represents the Burdekin's Late Pleistocene course.
Inland, the upper delta plain consists mainly of sand and gravelly sand in channels and floodplains, while the lower delta plain comprises diverse sediments including sands, muds, and organic materials.
Coastal features include well-developed mouth bars of medium to very coarse sand and various types of coastal flats dominated by mud and organic debris.
Jonathan D.A. Clarke, Fan Delta Geometry Of The Lower Burdekin River
System, North Queensland https://crcleme.org.au/Pubs/Monographs/regolith2004/Clarke_a.pdf
Christopher R. Fielding, Jonathon Trueman, Jan Alexander, Sedimentology of the Modern and Holocene Burdekin River Delta of North Queensland, Australia—Controlled by River Output, not by Waves and Tides in Liviu Giosan and Janok P. Bhattacharya (eds), River Deltas–Concepts, Models, and Examples
