We analyze 4000-year flood history of the lower Yellow River and the history of agricultural
development in the middle river by investigating historical writings and quantitative time …

Bars and subaqueous levees often form at river mouths due to high sediment availability.
Once these deposits emerge and develop into islands, they become important elements of …

Landscapes respond to climate, tectonic motions and sea level, but this response is
mediated by sediment transport. Understanding transmission of environmental signals is …

A substantial increase in fluvial sediment supply relative to transport capacity causes
complex, large-magnitude changes in river and floodplain morphology downstream …

Climate, tectonics, and life influence the flux and caliber of sediment transported across
Earth's surface. These environmental conditions can leave behind imprints in the Earth's …

Internally generated, or autogenic, terrestrial and marine sediment-transport dynamics can
produce depositional patterns similar to those associated with climatic, tectonic, or sea level …

Compensational stacking, the tendency for sediment transport systems to preferentially fill
topographic lows through deposition, is a concept widely used in the interpretation of the …

Modeling is an invaluable tool for studying sedimentary basin filling and for understanding
depositional processes with long recurrence intervals, including channel avulsion …

Since tectonic subsidence in sedimentary basins provides the potential for long-term facies
preservation into the sedimentary record, analysis of geomorphic elements in modern …

Debris flows are water-laden masses of sediment that move rapidly through channel
networks and over alluvial fans, where they can devastate people and property. Episodic …