A review of sediment diversion in the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain

K Xu, SJ Bentley, JW Day, AM Freeman - Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf …, 2019 - Elsevier
One of the proposed methods for restoring the disappearing Mississippi Delta is sediment
diversion which uses channels and structures to divert water and sediment from the …

Mass wasting on the Mississippi River subaqueous delta

JM Maloney, SJ Bentley, K Xu, J Obelcz… - Earth-Science …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Mississippi River delta front (MRDF) is an excellent natural laboratory for
studying seafloor instability and evaluating the preconditioning factors and triggering …

[图书][B] Rivers in the Landscape

E Wohl - 2020 - books.google.com
Rivers are the great shapers of terrestrial landscapes. Very few points on Earth above sea
level do not lie within a drainage basin. Even points distant from the nearest channel are …

Mississippi River subaqueous delta is entering a stage of retrogradation

JM Maloney, SJ Bentley, K Xu, J Obelcz, IY Georgiou… - Marine Geology, 2018 - Elsevier
The subaqueous delta of the Mississippi River, the largest river system in the conterminous
US, has entered a stage of retrogradation caused by multiple natural and anthropogenic …

Oceanic sediment accumulation rates predicted via machine learning algorithm: towards sediment characterization on a global scale

GA Restreppo, WT Wood, BJ Phrampus - Geo-Marine Letters, 2020 - Springer
Observed vertical sediment accumulation rates (n= 1031) were gathered from~ 55 years of
peer reviewed literature. Original methods of rate calculation include long-term isotope …

Mud-capped dredge pits: An experiment of opportunity for characterizing cohesive sediment transport and slope stability in the northern Gulf of Mexico

J Obelcz, K Xu, SJ Bentley, M O'Connor… - Estuarine, Coastal and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Mud-capped dredge pits (MCDPs), defined as sand borrow sites from paleo river channels
with cohesive sediment-capped walls, are used for northern Gulf of Mexico (NGoM) coastal …

Short-and long-term movement of mudflows of the Mississippi River Delta Front and their known and potential impacts on oil and gas infrastructure

JD Chaytor, WE Baldwin, SJ Bentley… - Geological Society …, 2020 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract Mudflows on the Mississippi River Delta Front (MRDF) are recognized hazards to
oil and gas infrastructure in the shallow (20–300 m water depth) Gulf of Mexico …

Sandy Borrow Area Sedimentation—Characteristics and Processes Within South Pelto Dredge Pit on Ship Shoal, Louisiana Shelf, USA

Z Xue, CA Wilson, KH Xu, SJ Bentley, H Liu - Estuaries and Coasts, 2022 - Springer
Ship Shoal is an inner-shelf submarine shoal with large amounts of restoration quality sand
that was dredged in 2013–2016 for the Caminada Headland Restoration Project in central …

Riverine sediment contribution to distal deltaic wetlands: Fourleague Bay, LA

GA Restreppo, SJ Bentley, J Wang, K Xu - Estuaries and Coasts, 2019 - Springer
To combat land loss along the Mississippi River Delta, Louisiana has launched a historic
campaign to sustain and regrow coastal lands using, in part, sediment diversions. Previous …

Multi-method geochronological approach to reconstruct post-1800 floodplain sedimentation in the Upper Rhine Plain, France

C Euzen, F Chabaux, G Rixhon, F Preusser… - Quaternary …, 2024 - Elsevier
The precise dating of sedimentary archives covering the last 200 years in floodplains
massively impacted by human activities is a major challenge. A combination of …