Unconfined alluvial flow processes: recognition and interpretation of their deposits, and the significance for palaeogeographic reconstruction

CP North, SK Davidson - Earth-Science Reviews, 2012 - Elsevier
Palaeogeographic interpretation of the sedimentary rock record depends on correct
recognition from the preserved evidence of the processes responsible for transporting and …

Fluvial levees in compound channels: a review on formation processes and the impact of bedforms and vegetation

T Branß, F Núñez-González, J Aberle - Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - Springer
Natural levees are wedge-shaped morphological features developing along the boundaries
of mass flows. When they form in fluvial landscapes, they can have multiple implications for …

Sand as a stable and sustainable resource for nourishing the Mississippi River delta

JA Nittrouer, E Viparelli - Nature Geoscience, 2014 - nature.com
Abstract The Mississippi River delta is undergoing a catastrophic drowning, whereby 5,000
km2 of low-lying wetlands have converted to open water over at least the past eight …

Dam-induced and natural channel changes in the Saskatchewan River below the EB Campbell Dam, Canada

ND Smith, GS Morozova, M Pérez-Arlucea, MR Gibling - Geomorphology, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The EB Campbell Dam on the Saskatchewan River, east-central Saskatchewan,
was constructed in 1962, forming Tobin Lake (2.2 billion m 3 capacity), which today …

[PDF][PDF] Dilution and propagation of provenance trends in sand and mud: Geochemistry and detrital zircon geochronology of modern sediment from central California …

MA Malkowski, GR Sharman, SA Johnstone… - American Journal of …, 2019 - ajsonline.org
Integrated, multi-method provenance studies of siliciclastic sedimentary deposits are
increasingly used to reconstruct the history of source-to-sink transport, paleogeography, and …

Natural levee evolution in the Rhine-Meuse delta, the Netherlands, during the first millennium CE

HJ Pierik, E Stouthamer, KM Cohen - Geomorphology, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents reconstructions on natural levee development in the Rhine-Meuse
delta, the Netherlands, during the first millennium CE, covering the full delta plain. It is the …

Holocene avulsions of the Euphrates River in the Najaf area of Western Mesopotamia: impacts on human settlement patterns

J Jotheri, MB Allen, TJ Wilkinson - Geoarchaeology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We present a study that reconstructs the ancient courses of the Euphrates in part of the
Mesopotamian floodplain west and southwest of the ancient site of Babylon. The focus is on …

Quantitative analysis of crevasse-splay systems from modern fluvial settings

MM Rahman, JA Howell… - Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Although crevasse splays are a common constituent of many fluvial and fluvio-deltaic
systems, they remain less well understood than the channel deposits in those settings …

Evaluating controls on crevasse-splay size: implications for floodplain-basin filling

C Millard, E Hajek… - Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Although crevasse splays are often considered important contributors to floodplain-basin
filling, evidence from modern and ancient fluvial deposits indicates that they may not play a …

Natural levee evolution in vegetated fluvial‐tidal environments

M Boechat Albernaz, L Roelofs… - Earth surface …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Natural levees are common features in river, delta and tidal landscapes. They are elevated
near‐channel morphological features that determine the connection between channel and …