Large deltas, small deltas: Toward a more rigorous understanding of coastal marine deltas

J Syvitski, E Anthony, Y Saito, F Zăinescu, J Day… - Global and Planetary …, 2022 - Elsevier
Deltas are subaerial landforms that cap underlying deposits with subaqueous extensions
that result from a river feeding sediment directly into a standing body of water at a rate that …

Marine geohazards: Past, present, and future

C Zhu, J Peng, Y Jia - Engineering Geology, 2023 - Elsevier
Marine geohazards related to geological features and processes in coastal and offshore
environments can cause damage to health, environment, field installations, or loss of life and …

Clinoforms and clinothems: Fundamental elements of basin infill

C Pellegrini, S Patruno, W Helland‐Hansen, RJ Steel… - Basin …, 2020 - earthdoc.org
This special issue dealing with the recent advances on modern and ancient clinoform‐
stratified sedimentary successions arises from a European Geoscience Union (EGU) …

[HTML][HTML] Provenance and sediment dispersal in the Po-Adriatic source-to-sink system unraveled by bulk-sediment geochemistry and its linkage to catchment geology

A Amorosi, I Sammartino, E Dinelli, B Campo… - Earth-Science …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Po-Adriatic region offers an excellent case for reconstructing sediment
provenance and transport pathways of a multi-sourced sediment-routing system. Through a …

The quintessential s-shape in sedimentology: A review on the formation and controls of clinoform shape

I Anell - Earth-Science Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Clinoforms are ubiquitous depositional surfaces in sedimentary systems. The quintessential
shape, with a flat or gentle topset, sloping foreset, and gentle to flat bottomset, is …

[HTML][HTML] Fate of terrigenous organic carbon in muddy clinothems on continental shelves revealed by stratal geometries: Insight from the Adriatic sedimentary archive

C Pellegrini, T Tesi, J Schieber, KM Bohacs… - Global and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Continental shelves host 90% of modern Organic Carbon (OC) burial and play a key role in
the sequestration of terrigenous OC over geological timescales. The efficiency of OC burial …

High rates of organic carbon burial in submarine deltas maintained on geological timescales

S Hage, BW Romans, TGE Peploe… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Burial of terrestrial organic carbon in marine sediments can draw down atmospheric CO2
levels on Earth over geologic timescales (≥ 105 yr). The largest sinks of organic carbon …

[HTML][HTML] Late Quaternary sedimentary record of estuarine incised-valley filling and interfluve flooding: The Manfredonia paleovalley system (southern Italy)

A Amorosi, L Bruno, M Caldara, B Campo… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2023 - Elsevier
Multiple paleovalley systems of late Quaternary age have been widely explored in previous
research from the Gulf of Manfredonia on the basis of seismic data, but only limited …

Contrasting facies patterns between river-dominated and symmetrical wave-dominated delta deposits

BJ Willis, T Sun, RB Ainsworth - Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Process-physics-based, coupled hydrodynamic–morphodynamic delta models are
constructed to understand preserved facies heterogeneities that can influence subsurface …

The fourth slope: A fundamental new classification of continental margins

I Anell - Basin Research, 2024 - earthdoc.org
Continental margins develop long submarine slopes, linking the shallow shelves along the
continental landmasses to the deep abyssal plain. They are the results of a complex …