Joseph Curray, a renowned geologist and professor whose association with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract High rates of coastal land loss in Louisiana have prompted efforts to maintain or restore coastal wetland habitats, and structural management ...

Reservoir and channel cross-sections were surveyed periodically over a 25-year period to determine sediment deposition and channel aggradation behind the Sheep Creek Barrier Dam in southern Utah. The ...

Atmospheric dust plays an important role in the way Earth absorbs and reflects sunlight, impacting the global climate, cloud ...

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Just as water moves through a river, rivers themselves move across the landscape. They carve valleys and canyons, create floodplains and deltas, and transport sediment from the uplands to the ocean. A ...

The Zambezi River carrying sediment downstream. Free-flowing rivers are generally not included among lists of Nature-based Solutions (NbS). However, rivers that carry a natural sediment load are ...

Ocean currents determine the structure of the deep-sea ocean floor and the transport of sediments, organic carbon, nutrients and pollutants. In flume-tank experiments, researchers have simulated how ...

Sedimentary rock is one of the three main rock groups (along with igneous and metamorphic rocks) and is formed in four main ways: by the deposition of the weathered remains of other rocks (known as ...