Publication Date:
2017-07-13
Description:
Efficient retention of mud drives land building on the Mississippi Delta plain Christopher R. Esposito, Zhixiong Shen, Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Jonathan Marshak, and Christopher White Earth Surf. Dynam., 5, 387-397, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-387-2017, 2017 Our work presents a novel method of measuring the capacity of deltaic landforms to trap and retain river-borne sediments, and we demonstrate that sediment retention is closely connected to sedimentary composition. Our results, supported by a unique high-resolution coring dataset in a major crevasse splay, show that finer sediments are a much larger component of the Mississippi Delta than is often acknowledged and that their abundance indicates exceptionally high rates of sediment retention.
Electronic ISSN:
2196-6338
Topics:
Geosciences
