Predicting bedforms and primary current stratification in cohesive mixtures of mud and sand

JH Baas, JL Best, J Peakall - Journal of the Geological Society, 2016 - lyellcollection.org
The use of sedimentary structures as indicators of flow and sediment morphodynamics in
ancient sediments lies at the very heart of sedimentology, and allows reconstruction of …

Threshold constraints on the size, shape and stability of alluvial rivers

CB Phillips, CC Masteller, LJ Slater… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2022 - nature.com
The geometry of alluvial river channels both controls and adjusts to the flow of water and
sediment within them. This feedback between flow and form modulates flood risk, and the …

Dynamics of sediment transport and erosion-deposition patterns in the locality of a detached low-crested breakwater on a cohesive coast

A Fitri, R Hashim, S Abolfathi, KN Abdul Maulud - Water, 2019 - mdpi.com
Understanding the dynamics of sediment transport and erosion-deposition patterns in the
locality of a coastal structure is vital to evaluating the performance of coastal structures and …

The pervasive role of biological cohesion in bedform development

J Malarkey, JH Baas, JA Hope, RJ Aspden… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Sediment fluxes in aquatic environments are crucially dependent on bedform dynamics.
However, sediment-flux predictions rely almost completely on clean-sand studies, despite …

Biostabilization of cohesive sediments: revisiting the role of abiotic conditions, physiology and diversity of microbes, polymeric secretion, and biofilm architecture

SU Gerbersdorf, S Wieprecht - Geobiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In aquatic habitats, micro‐organisms successfully adhere to and mediate particles, thus
changing the erosive response of fine sediments to hydrodynamic forcing by secreting glue …

The role of biophysical cohesion on subaqueous bed form size

DR Parsons, RJ Schindler, JA Hope… - Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Biologically active, fine‐grained sediment forms abundant sedimentary deposits on Earth's
surface, and mixed mud‐sand dominates many coasts, deltas, and estuaries. Our …

Contourites and bottom current reworked sands: Bed facies model and implications

S De Castro, FJ Hernández-Molina… - Marine Geology, 2020 - Elsevier
The differentiation of pure turbidites and contourites from mixed deposits—as the bottom
current reworked sands (BCRS)—in sedimentary cores and outcrops from the modern or …

Effects of organic matter on the aggregation of anthropogenic microplastic particles in turbulent environments

X Shen, H Huo, Y Zhang, Y Zhu, M Fettweis, Q Bi… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Biofilm-coated microplastics are omnipresent in aquatic environments, carrying different
organic matter (OM) that in turn influences the flocculation and settling of microplastic …

Mixed sand–mud bedforms produced by transient turbulent flows in the fringe of submarine fans: Indicators of flow transformation

ML Baker, JH Baas - Sedimentology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The fringe of fine‐grained deep‐marine systems often exhibits complex sedimentary facies
and facies associations, because the presence of clay promotes the development of …

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 …