EP43D:
Advances in Understanding Fluvial-Deltaic Processes and Their Interactions with the Tectonic Setting II

Session ID#: 4353

Thursday, 18 December 2014: 1:40 PM-3:40 PM
2005 (Moscone West)
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:

Exploring the Effects of Base-level Change and Differential Subsidence on Fluviodeltaic Channels with a Reduced-Complexity Model (Invited) (4731)
Man Liang, The Water Insitute of the Gulf, Baton Rouge, LA, United States, Corey Van Dyk, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States, Paola Passalacqua, The University of Texas at Austin, Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, Austin, United States, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr, Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States and Wonsuck Kim, Yonsei University, Department of Earth System Sciences, Seoul, South Korea
GROWTH AND EVOLUTION OF RIVER MOUTH BARS UNDER WAVE ATTACK (17224)
William Nardin, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, United States, Douglas A Edmonds, Indiana University Bloomington, Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Bloomington, IN, United States and Sergio Fagherazzi, Boston University, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston, MA, United States
Evaluating the signatures of fluvial, wave, and tidal processes on deltaic deposits in the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway (Invited) (4854)
Elizabeth A Hajek, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Department of Geosciences, University Park, United States and Sheila M Trampush, University of California Berkeley, Dept. of Geography, Berkeley, CA, United States
A New Method for Quantifying Compaction Rates and Their Spatial Variability in the Mississippi Delta (26326)
Elizabeth L Chamberlain, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, Zhixiong Shen, Coastal Carolina University, Department of Marine Science, Conway, SC, United States, Torbjorn E Tornqvist, Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, LA, United States and Barbara Mauz, University of Salzburg, Department of Environment and Biodiversity, Salzburg, Austria
Mechanics of Backwater-Mediated Avulsions on River Deltas (10530)
Vamsi Ganti1, Hima J Hassenruck-Gudipati1, Austin John Chadwick2 and Michael P Lamb3, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States
A Synthetic View of Delta Progradation, Distributary Channel Stability and Alluvial Aggradation in Terms of the Control of Basin Water Depth (21808)
Tetsuji Muto, Nagasaki University, Department of Environmental Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan
Patterns and Rates of Deltaic Aggradation and Progradation: Insights from the Mississippi Delta (Invited) (10969)
Torbjorn E Tornqvist1, Zhixiong Shen2, Elizabeth L Chamberlain3, Christopher R Esposito4, Barbara Mauz5, Jonathan Marshak1, Christopher D White1, Austin N Nijhuis1 and Laure Sandoval1, (1)Tulane University of Louisiana, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, LA, United States, (2)Coastal Carolina University, Department of Marine Science, Conway, SC, United States, (3)Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, NY, United States, (4)Tulane University of Louisiana, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New Orleans, United States, (5)University of Salzburg, Department of Environment and Biodiversity, Salzburg, Austria
How Does Subsidence Affect Deltaic River Systems? (Invited) (11262)
Chris Paola, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States, Steven Lee Goodbred Jr, Vanderbilt University, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Nashville, TN, United States, Syed Humayun Akhter, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Jennifer Pickering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, Meredith Reitz, Lamont -Doherty Earth Observatory, Marine Geology and Geophysics, Palisades, NY, United States, Leonardo Seeber, Lamont-Doherty Earth Obs, Palisades, United States and Michael S Steckler, Columbia University, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, United States