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Sediment And Terrestrial Organic Carbon Budgets For The Offshore Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar: Establishing A Baseline For Future Change, Evan R. Flynn, S. Kuehl, Courtney K. Harris, Matthew J. Fair
Sediment And Terrestrial Organic Carbon Budgets For The Offshore Ayeyarwady Delta, Myanmar: Establishing A Baseline For Future Change, Evan R. Flynn, S. Kuehl, Courtney K. Harris, Matthew J. Fair
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Large river deltas serve as globally important archives of terrestrial and shallow marine biogeochemical signatures and because of rapid sedimentation have the potential to impact global biogeochemical cycling. The Ayeyarwady Delta in Myanmar ranks as the world's third largest river delta in terms of sediment supply; however, modern increases in regional anthropogenic impacts risk severe alteration to sediment and TerrOC loads within this major system. By investigating modern sediment and terrestrial organic carbon (TerrOC) accumulation within the offshore Ayeyarwady Delta this study estimates baseline sediment and TerrOC budgets for this understudied mega-delta. Using 210Pb geochronology of 27 sediment cores collected …