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 …

Downstream fining in large sand-bed rivers

RM Frings - Earth-Science Reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
Downstream fining of bed sediments is a well-known phenomenon in gravel-bed rivers, but
also occurs in (large) sand-bed rivers. The underlying processes, however, are not …

Floodplain sedimentation in the Upper Mississippi Valley: Natural versus human accelerated

JC Knox - Geomorphology, 2006 - Elsevier
Understanding the time scales and pathways for response and recovery of rivers and
floodplains to episodic changes in erosion and sedimentation has been a long standing …

The impact of changes in climate and land use on soil erosion, transport and deposition of suspended sediment in the River Rhine

NEM Asselman, H Middelkoop… - Hydrological …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The objective of this study was to estimate the potential effects of changes in climate and
land use on the mobilization of fine sediment and the net transport of wash load from the …

Assessment of the effects of cyclic floodplain rejuvenation on flood levels and biodiversity along the Rhine River

MJ Baptist, WE Penning, H Duel… - River Research and …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
To reduce flood risks in the Netherlands, measures to increase the flood conveyance
capacity of the Rhine River will be implemented. These measures will provide more room for …

Lower Rhine historical flood magnitudes of the last 450 years reproduced from grain-size measurements of flood deposits using End Member Modelling

WHJ Toonen, TG Winkels, KM Cohen, MA Prins… - Catena, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective The objective of this research was to unlock the potential of fluvial archives to
create flood chronologies, based on grain-size characteristics of flood deposits located in …

Event sequence and sediment exhaustion in the lower Panuco Basin, Mexico

PF Hudson - Catena, 2003 - Elsevier
Although large tropical river systems transport the majority of the world's runoff and
sediment, few studies have examined the dynamics of suspended sediment transport in this …

Sediment budgets as an organizing framework in fluvial geomorphology

LM Reid, T Dunne - Tools in fluvial geomorphology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Fluvial geomorphology concerns the transport of weathered rock debris and its
accumulation and organization into land‐forms that evolve continuously. Sediment budgets …

Accretion and vegetation community change in the Wax Lake Delta following the historic 2011 Mississippi River flood

MV Carle, CE Sasser… - Journal of Coastal …, 2015 - meridian.allenpress.com
ABSTRACT Carle, MV; Sasser, CE, and Roberts, HH, 2015. Accretion and vegetation
community change in the Wax Lake Delta following the historic 2011 Mississippi River flood …

Evidence for hydrochory and the deposition of viable seeds within winter flow‐deposited sediments: the River Dove, Derbyshire, UK

JM Goodson, AM Gurnell, PG Angold… - River Research and …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies of the influence of hydrochory on plant dispersal have focused on
relationships with existing vegetation patterns or litter deposits. River sediment deposition …