Global quantitative analyses of river discharge variability and hydrograph shape with respect to climate types

MR Hansford, P Plink-Björklund, ER Jones - Earth-science reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Discharge variability is a key control on hydrological behavior in rivers, such as the
frequency and magnitude of floods. A better understanding of discharge variability and how …

Comparison of methods to estimate sediment flux in ancient sediment routing systems

CJ Brewer, GJ Hampson, AC Whittaker… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
The need to predict accurately the volume, timing and location of sediments that are
transported from an erosional source region into a basin-depocentre sink is important for …

Time in the Rock: A field guide to interpreting past events and processes from siliciclastic stratigraphy

JM Holbrook, AD Miall - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Converging research in modern environments, stratigraphy, numerical modeling, and
physical experiments introduce new ideas and reinforce prior thinking on the complex and …

Recognizing the product of concavebank sedimentary processes in fluvial meanderbelt strata

PR Durkin, SM Hubbard, J Holbrook… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Downstream migration of point bars is an important process in meander belts. Inherent to
downstream migration is sediment accumulation in concave channel banks, immediately …

Predicting sediment discharges and erosion rates in deep time—examples from the late Cretaceous North American continent

SJ Lyster, AC Whittaker, PA Allison, DJ Lunt… - Basin …, 2020 - earthdoc.org
Depositional stratigraphy represents the only physical archive of palaeosediment routing
and this limits analysis of ancient sourcetosink systems in both space and time. Here, we …

River sediment geochemistry as a conservative mixture of source regions: Observations and predictions from the Cairngorms, UK

AG Lipp, GG Roberts, AC Whittaker… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The elemental composition of sediments in rivers is the product of physical and chemical
erosion of rocks, which is then transported across drainage networks. A corollary is that …

Application of channel-belt scaling relationships to early Middle Jurassic source-to-sink system evolution in the southern Junggar Basin

Y Li, L Shao, J Xu, H Hou, Y Tang, Y Yuan… - Marine and Petroleum …, 2020 - Elsevier
A wide range of key scaling relationships obtained from modern fluvial systems can be used
to estimate the drainage areas in ancient source-to-sink systems. In this study, these …

Palaeohydrological characteristics and palaeogeographic reconstructions of incisedvalleyfill systems: Insights from the Namurian successions of the United …

RU Wang, L Colombera, NP Mountney - Sedimentology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Namurian (Carboniferous) eustatic fluctuations drove the incision and backfill of shelf
crossing valley systems located in humid subequatorial regions, which are now preserved in …

Classification of paralic channel sub-environments in an ancient system using outcrops: The Cretaceous Gallup system, New Mexico, USA

W Lin, C Ferron, S Karner… - Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Distinguishing trunk channels and delta-plain distributary channels in ancient systems can
be difficult due to poor or incomplete data (eg, limited outcrop or sparse well data). Accurate …

[HTML][HTML] Paleohydrology and machine-assisted estimation of paleogeomorphology of fluvial channels of the lower Middle Pennsylvanian Allegheny Formation, Birch …

O Abatan, A Weislogel - Frontiers in Earth Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Rivers transport sediments in a source to sink system while responding to allogenic controls
of the depositional system. Stacked fluvial sandstones of the Middle Pennsylvanian …