Wave influence in the construction, sha** and destruction of river deltas: A review

EJ Anthony - Marine Geology, 2015 - Elsevier
Waves are an important agent in the construction, sha** and destruction of river deltas.
Notwithstanding the commonality of waves in oceans and seas, wave influence on deltas …

Dynamics of river mouth deposits

S Fagherazzi, DA Edmonds, W Nardin… - Reviews of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The effects of sediment properties on deltaic processes and morphologies: A numerical modeling study

RL Caldwell, DA Edmonds - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
There is a pressing need to understand how different delta morphologies arise because
morphology determines a delta's ecologic structure, resilience to relative sea‐level rise, and …

Evolution of the Bengal Delta and its prevailing processes

J Akter, MH Sarker, I Popescu… - Journal of Coastal …, 2016 - meridian.allenpress.com
ABSTRACT Akter, J.; Sarker, MH; Popescu, I., and Roelvink, D., 2016. Evolution of the
Bengal Delta and its prevailing processes. Bangladesh, occupying low-lying floodplains and …

A reduced-complexity shoreline change model combining longshore and cross-shore processes: The LX-Shore model

A Robinet, D Idier, B Castelle, V Marieu - Environmental modelling & …, 2018 - Elsevier
A reduced-complexity numerical model, LX-Shore, is developed to simulate shoreline
evolution along wave-dominated sandy coasts. The model can handle any sandy shoreline …

What makes a delta wave-dominated?

JH Nienhuis, AD Ashton, L Giosan - Geology, 2015 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
River deltas, low-lying landforms that host high concentrations of human population and
ecosystem services, face a new, and mostly unknown, future over the coming decades and …

World's largest dam removal reverses coastal erosion

JA Warrick, AW Stevens, IM Miller, SR Harrison… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Coastal erosion outpaces land generation along many of the world's deltas and a significant
percentage of shorelines, and human-caused alterations to coastal sediment budgets can …

Effect of tides on mouth bar morphology and hydrodynamics

N Leonardi, A Canestrelli, T Sun… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Mouth bars are morphological units important for deltas, estuaries, or rivers debouching into
the sea. Several processes affect the formation of these deposits. This paper focuses on the …

Exploring shoreface dynamics and a mechanistic explanation for a morphodynamic depth of closure

AC Ortiz, AD Ashton - Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Using energetics‐based formulations for wave‐driven sediment transport, we develop a
robust methodology for estimating the morphodynamic evolution of a cross‐shore sandy …

Holocene evolution of the Danube delta: An integral reconstruction and a revised chronology

A Vespremeanu-Stroe, F Zăinescu, L Preoteasa… - Marine Geology, 2017 - Elsevier
The Danube delta is one of the few large deltas in the world the evolution of which has
involved numerous and varied episodes within a complex framework of interactivity between …