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 …

Land loss due to human-altered sediment budget in the Mississippi River Delta

DA Edmonds, SC Toby, CG Siverd, R Twilley… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Land loss in the Mississippi River Delta is due to the human-altered sediment budget, yet
the relative contributions of building dams, levees and extracting subsurface resources are …

Role of delta‐front erosion in sustaining salt marshes under sea‐level rise and fluvial sediment decline

SL Yang, X Luo, S Temmerman… - Limnology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Accelerating sea‐level rise and decreasing riverine sediment supply are widely considered
to lead to global losses of deltaic marshes and their valuable ecosystem services. However …

Biogeochemical drivers of the fate of riverine mercury discharged to the global and Arctic oceans

Y Zhang, DJ Jacob, S Dutkiewicz… - Global …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Rivers discharge 28±13 Mmol yr− 1 of mercury (Hg) to ocean margins, an amount
comparable to atmospheric deposition to the global oceans. Most of the Hg discharged by …

Transport of riverine sediment from different outlets in the Pearl River Estuary during the wet season

G Zhang, W Cheng, L Chen, H Zhang, W Gong - Marine Geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Riverine sediment is important for the development of river deltas and for carrying both
nutrients and contaminants into estuaries and coasts. Previous studies of sediment transport …

Shelf sediment transport during hurricanes Katrina and Rita

K Xu, RC Mickey, Q Chen, CK Harris… - Computers & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Hurricanes can greatly modify the sedimentary record, but our coastal scientific community
has rather limited capability to predict hurricane-induced sediment deposition. A three …

River-derived sediment suspension and transport in the Bohai, Yellow, and East China Seas: A preliminary modeling study

X Zeng, R He, Z Xue, H Wang, Y Wang, Z Yao… - Continental Shelf …, 2015 - Elsevier
Coastal circulation and transport of sediment derived from the Huanghe and Changjiang
Rivers in the Bohai, Yellow, and East China Seas (BYECS) over the past 48 years (1958 …

Modeling hurricane-induced wetland-bay and bay-shelf sediment fluxes

K Liu, Q Chen, K Hu, K Xu, RR Twilley - Coastal Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Hurricanes have long been recognized as a strong forcing in sha** the coastal
morphology, especially by redistributing sediments among coastal wetlands, bays and inner …

Implications of texture and erodibility for sediment retention in receiving basins of coastal Louisiana diversionsFree GPT-4

K Xu, SJ Bentley Sr, P Robichaux, X Sha, H Yang - Water, 2016 - mdpi.com
Although the Mississippi River deltaic plain has been the subject of abundant research over
recent decades, there is a paucity of data concerning field measurement of sediment …

Assessing temporal and spatial variability of hypoxia over the inner Louisiana–upper Texas shelf: Application of an unstructured-grid three-dimensional coupled …

D Justić, L Wang - Continental Shelf Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Patterns of temporal and spatial variability in hypoxia (< 2 mg O 2 l− 1) on the inner
Louisiana–upper Texas (LaTex) shelf were examined using FVCOM LaTex, an unstructured …