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Efficient retention of mud drives land building on the Mississippi Delta plain
Christopher R. Esposito
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Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-5698, USA
now at: The Water Institute of the Gulf, One American Place, 301 N. Main Street, Suite 2000, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70825, USA
Zhixiong Shen
Department of Marine Science, Coastal Carolina University, P.O. Box 261954, Conway, South Carolina 29528, USA
Torbjörn E. Törnqvist
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-5698, USA
Jonathan Marshak
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-5698, USA
Christopher White
Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Tulane University, 6823 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118-5698, USA
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Short summary
Our work presents a novel method of measuring the capacity of deltaic landforms to trap and retain river-borne sediments, and we demonstrate that sediment retention is closely connected to sedimentary composition. Our results, supported by a unique high-resolution coring dataset in a major crevasse splay, show that finer sediments are a much larger component of the Mississippi Delta than is often acknowledged and that their abundance indicates exceptionally high rates of sediment retention.
Our work presents a novel method of measuring the capacity of deltaic landforms to trap and...
