Dynamics of river mouth deposits

S Fagherazzi, DA Edmonds, W Nardin… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Bars and subaqueous levees often form at river mouths due to high sediment availability.
Once these deposits emerge and develop into islands, they become important elements of …

Backwater and river plume controls on scour upstream of river mouths: Implications for fluvio‐deltaic morphodynamics

MP Lamb, JA Nittrouer, D Mohrig… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Sediment flux from rivers to oceans is the fundamental driver of fluvio‐deltaic
morphodynamics and continental margin sedimentation, yet sediment transport across the …

The effects of sediment properties on deltaic processes and morphologies: A numerical modeling study

RL Caldwell, DA Edmonds - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
There is a pressing need to understand how different delta morphologies arise because
morphology determines a delta's ecologic structure, resilience to relative sea‐level rise, and …

Backwater controls of avulsion location on deltas

P Chatanantavet, MP Lamb… - Geophysical Research …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
River delta complexes are built in part through repeated river‐channel avulsions, which
often occur about a persistent spatial node creating delta lobes that form a fan‐like …

What controls the transition from confined to unconfined flow? Analysis of hydraulics in a coastal river delta

M Hiatt, P Passalacqua - Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 2017 - ascelibrary.org
Recent field work at the Wax Lake Delta (WLD) in coastal Louisiana indicates lateral outflow
from channels to islands upstream of the receiving basin; in this region of the delta the flow …

Hydrological connectivity in river deltas: The first‐order importance of channel‐island exchange

M Hiatt, P Passalacqua - Water Resources Research, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Deltaic systems are composed of distributary channels and interdistributary islands. While
previous work has focused either on the channels or on the islands, here we study the …

Erosion at inception of deep-sea channels

A Fildani, SM Hubbard, JA Covault, KL Maier… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a general model for channel inception and evolution in the deep sea by
integrating observations from two complementary datasets:(1) high-resolution multibeam …

Phase change in evolution of the modern Huanghe (Yellow River) Delta: Process, pattern, and mechanisms

N Bi, H Wang, X Wu, Y Saito, C Xu, Z Yang - Marine Geology, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The modern Huanghe Delta used to be the most rapid land-building delta in the
world. Its evolution has become a global concern because the sediment load of the …

Quantitative metrics that describe river deltas and their channel networks

DA Edmonds, C Paola, DCJD Hoyal… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Densely populated river deltas are losing land at an alarming rate and to successfully
restore these environments we must understand the details of their morphology. Toward this …

Effect of tides on mouth bar morphology and hydrodynamics

N Leonardi, A Canestrelli, T Sun… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Mouth bars are morphological units important for deltas, estuaries, or rivers debouching into
the sea. Several processes affect the formation of these deposits. This paper focuses on the …