Delta sustainability from the Holocene to the Anthropocene and envisioning the future

E Anthony, J Syvitski, F Zăinescu, RJ Nicholls… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
River deltas offer numerous ecosystem services and host an estimated global population of
350 million to more than 500 million inhabitants in over 100 countries. To maintain their …

Holocene sedimentary evolution of the Mekong River floodplain, Cambodia

Y Ishii, T Tamura, B Ben - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mekong River, which has high economic and ecological importance, has an
extensive floodplain and delta plain that extends from Cambodia to Vietnam. Understanding …

Does load‐induced shallow subsidence inhibit delta growth?

EL Chamberlain, Z Shen, W Kim… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The ability of deltas to persist by building new land is critical to maintaining these vital
ecologic environments that are often home to major economic and population centers …

Cultural-ecosystem resilience is vital yet under-considered in coastal restoration

JM Mehta, EL Chamberlain - Humanities and Social Sciences …, 2023 - nature.com
As large areas of the Mississippi River Delta (MRD) of the USA disappear into the sea,
present-day communities and cultural resources are lost. While the land loss may be readily …

Geoarchaeological signatures of anthropogenic soils in southeastern Uruguay: Approaches to formation processes and spatial–temporal variability

L del Puerto, C Gianotti, N Bortolotto… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This contribution focuses on the interpretation of earthen mound formation processes in the
lowlands of the Pampa biome, southeastern Uruguay, through the integrated analysis of …

Which geomorphic processes can be informed by luminescence measurements?

ND Brown - Geomorphology, 2020 - Elsevier
Luminescence signals from quartz and feldspar contain a wealth of information about
exposure to heat and sunlight. While many studies have focused on quantifying individual …

Stepwise, earthquake-driven coastal subsidence in the Ganges–Brahmaputra Delta (Sundarbans) since the eighth century deduced from submerged in situ kiln and …

TJJ Hanebuth, HR Kudrass, AM Zander, HS Akhter… - Natural Hazards, 2022 - Springer
This study reconstructs the coastal subsidence over the past 1300 years in a mangrove
region along the coast of the Ganges–Brahmaputra Delta, an area not affected by …

Enhanced mud retention as an autogenic mechanism for sustained delta growth: Insight from records of the Lafourche subdelta of the Mississippi River

M Kim, B Chun, E Chamberlain, W Kim - Sedimentology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mud deposition is acknowledged as a significant contributor to delta architecture, yet its role
is often oversimplified as a constant parameter in models of delta formation. A better …

A centennial perspective on archeological research trends and contemporary needs for a vanishing Mississippi Delta

MR Helmer, EL Chamberlain, JM Mehta - The Holocene, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Archeological investigations of the Mississippi Delta (US) are reaching the century mark and
provide information relevant to Holocene settlement patterns and present-day issues of …

Measuring biodiversity and the loss of indigenous landscapes in coastal Louisiana using airborne imagery and satellite data

JM Mehta - Biodiversity, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Adams Bay site is a Native American monumental centre located in the
Mississippi River Delta (MRD), a dynamic, geomorphic environment comprised of marshes …