EP41A:
Advances in Understanding Fluvial-Deltaic Processes and Their Interactions with the Tectonic Setting I Posters

Session ID#: 3321

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Poster Hall (Moscone_South)
Chairs:  John B Shaw, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States, Jeffrey Nittrouer, Texas Tech University, Geosciences, Lubbock, TX, United States, Meredith Reitz, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Palisades, NY, United States and Carol Wilson, Louisiana State University, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, United States
Primary Convener:  John B Shaw, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, United States
Co-conveners:  Jeffrey Nittrouer, Texas Tech University, Geosciences, Lubbock, TX, United States, Meredith Reitz, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Palisades, NY, United States and Carol Wilson, Louisiana State University, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Baton Rouge, United States
OSPA Liaison:  John B Shaw, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • NH - Natural Hazards
  • T - Tectonophysics
Index Terms:

1856 River channels [HYDROLOGY]
1861 Sedimentation [HYDROLOGY]
1862 Sediment transport [HYDROLOGY]
4546 Nearshore processes [OCEANOGRAPHY: PHYSICAL]
Virtual Option?: No

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

 
Morphology, structures and seismic characters of the Chimei Canyon-Fan system offshore eastern Taiwan (16524)
Yu-Huan Hsieh, IONTU Institute of Oceanography National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan and Char-Shine Liu, Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
 
Experimental Investigation of the Morphodynamic Controls on Delta-Lobe Formation and Shoreline Rugosity (9844)
Austin John Chadwick, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, Vamsi Ganti, California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States and Michael P Lamb, California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States
 
Abandoned Channel Fill Sequences in Tidal Estuaries (18524)
Andrew B Gray, University of California Riverside, Environmental Science, Riverside, CA, United States, Gregory B Pasternack, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States, Miguel A Goni, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, United States and Elizabeth Burke Watson, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI, United States
 
Deciphering the evolution and origin of the lower Colorado River and uplift of the Colorado Plateau: Preliminary U-Pb carbonate dating results and future directions (18564)
Ryan S Crow1, Karl E Karlstrom2, Laura J Crossey3, Victor J Polyak4, Yemane Asmerom4 and Kyle House1, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (2)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, United States, (3)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (4)University of New Mexico, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, United States
 
Medium-Detail Delta Morphodynamic Modeling: Initial Experiments with Avulsion Behaviors, Sediment Delivery, Artificial Leeves, and Relative Sea Level Rise Rates (18814)
Katherine M Ratliff, Duke University, Nicholas School of Environment, Durham, United States, Allen Bradshaw Murray, Duke University, Division of Earth and Climate Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, United States, Eric Hutton, Community Surface Dynamics Modeling System, Boulder, United States, Anastasia Piliouras, University of Texas, Austin, TX, United States and Wonsuck Kim, Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
 
Fluvio-Deltaic Response to Tectonic and Sea-Level Perturbations (22397)
Rebecca L Caldwell, Indiana University, Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States and Tao Sun, Chevron Energy Technology Company, Earth Science Dept., Houston, TX, United States
 
A reduced complexity approach to morphodynamic modeling: Validation of DeltaRCM and prediction of fluviodeltaic channel dynamics (23407)
Corey Van Dyk, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Man Liang, The Water Insitute of the Gulf, Baton Rouge, LA, United States and Paola Passalacqua, The University of Texas at Austin, Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, United States
 
Spatial Trends in Sediment Sorting and Stratigraphic Architecture within Lowland Rivers (26303)
Anjali M Fernandes1, Kyle M Straub2, Torbjorn E Tornqvist2 and David C Mohrig3, (1)Tulane University of Louisiana, Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, LA, United States, (2)Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, United States, (3)University of Texas at Austin, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Austin, United States
 
Viscoelastic Deformation Due to Sediment Loading in the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta and in the Bay of Bengal. (25646)
Mikhail Karpytchev1, Valérie Ballu1, Pierre Valty2, Stephane Calmant3, Junyi Guo4, Fabrice Papa3, Melanie Becker5, Faisal Hossain6 and C.K. Shum7, (1)LIENSs/Université La Rochelle, La Rochelle, France, (2)IGN Institut National de l'Information Géographique et Forestière, Paris Cedex 13, France, (3)IRD, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (4)Ohio State University Main Campus, Division of Geodetic Science, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States, (5)University of French Guiana, Cayenne, French Guiana, (6)University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States, (7)The Ohio State University, Division of Geodetic Science, School of Earth Sciences, Columbus, OH, United States
 
Analysis on the Criterion for Channel avulsions of the Costal Delta in the Yellow River (27547)
Yuanjian Wang, Yellow River Institute of Hydraulic Research, Zhengzhou, China and Xudong Fu, Tsinghua University, State Key Laboratory of Hydroscience and Engineering, Department of Hydraulic Engineering, Beijing, China
 
Growth, Uplift and Truncation of Indo-Burman Anticlines Paced By Glacial-Interglacial Sea Level Change (10449)
Jonathan Gale1, Michael S Steckler2, Daniel Sousa1, Leonardo Seeber3, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr4 and Eleanor K Ferguson1, (1)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, (2)Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, United States, (4)Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States
 
Modeling coupled avulsion and earthquake timescale dynamics (30123)
Meredith Reitz, United States Geological Survey (USGS), Reston, VA, United States, Michael S Steckler, Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States, Chris Paola, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States and Leonardo Seeber, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, United States
 
The role of vegetation in the development and resiliency of the coastal freshwater deltaic system of Wax Lake Delta (31230)
Elizabeth Ann Olliver, Indiana University Bloomington, Geological Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States, Douglas A Edmonds, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States, Zuoning Jiang, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN, United States, Azure E Bevington, Louisiana State University, Oceanography, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, William Nardin, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States and Robert Twilley, Louisiana State University, Department of Oceanography & Coastal Sciences, Baton Rouge, United States
 
Sediment transport dynamics linked to morphological evolution of the Selenga River delta, Lake Baikal, Russia (31636)
Tian Yang Dong, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences, Edinburg, TX, United States, Jeffrey Nittrouer, Texas Tech University, Geosciences, Lubbock, TX, United States, Brandon J McElroy, University of Wyoming, Geology and Geophysics, Laramie, WY, United States, Matthew John Czapiga, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States, Elena Il'icheva, V.B Sochava Institute of Geography Siberian Branch Russian Academy of Science, Laboratory of Hydrology and Climatology, Irkutsk, Russia, Maksim Pavolv, Geospectrum, St.Petersburg, Russia and Gary Parker, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Earth Science and Environmental Change & Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, United States
 
What might rice piles tell us about non-local sediment transport?  (29765)
Vaughan R Voller, University of Minnesota, Civil Environmental and Geo- Engineering, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Anthony Longjas, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Minneapolis, MN, United States, Chris Paola, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States and Natasha Filipovitch, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States