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Physical Processes Behind Delta Propagation And Flood Layer Dynamics, Po River, Italy, Aaron J. Bever Jan 2006

Physical Processes Behind Delta Propagation And Flood Layer Dynamics, Po River, Italy, Aaron J. Bever

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Rivers discharge around 20 billion tonnes of sediment to the coastal ocean each year (Milliman and Syvitski, 1992). Many supply dominated rivers possess large subareal and subaqueous deltas, whose growth depends on the physical processes controlling sediment deposition or removal. There has yet to be a complete understanding of how short term processes such as settling from buoyant plumes, wave/current resuspension, and transport by currents and gravity flows, interact to produce the depositional products that develop over varying timescales. The Po River in Northern Italy forms a substantial delta in the Adriatic Sea. It has five distributary mouths, and is …


Linking Land To Ocean: Flux And Fate Of Water And Sediment From The Yangtze River To The East China Sea, Kehui Xu Jan 2006

Linking Land To Ocean: Flux And Fate Of Water And Sediment From The Yangtze River To The East China Sea, Kehui Xu

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Although precipitation and runoff for the entire Yangtze River watershed have changed little since 1950, the increase of runoff in Yangtze southern sub-basin has been much larger than that of precipitation, reflecting decreased temperatures and evapotranspiration, In contrast, the marked decreases in runoff in northern Yangtze have been due mainly to increased water consumption. Since the 1980s, the Yangtze sediment load has declined dramatically, and 2004 loads at Yichang (just below the Three Gorges Dam - TGD) and Datong (lower stream) were only 12% and 33% of those in the 1950s and 60s, reflecting precipitation decline, landuse change, and most …


Disposition Of Wastewater-Associated Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers In A Freshwater Receiving Stream, Mark Joseph La Guardia Jan 2006

Disposition Of Wastewater-Associated Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers In A Freshwater Receiving Stream, Mark Joseph La Guardia

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