Clark, R., Georgiou, I. Y., FitzGerald, D. M., 2013. An evolutionary
model of a retrograding subdeltaic distributary of a riverdominated system. In Association for the Sciences of Limnology
and Oceanography, Abstracts with program, 12107, New
Orleans, LA.
Coleman, J. M., 1981. Deltas: Processes of Deposition and Models
for Exploration. Minnesota: Burgess.
Coleman, J. M., and Prior, D. B., 1980. Deltaic sand bodies. In
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Continuing Education Course. Tulsa, OK: American Association of Petroleum
Geologists. 171 p.
Coleman, J. M., and Wright, L. D., 1975. Modern river deltas: variability of processes and sand bodies. In Broussard, M. L. (ed.),
Deltas: Models for Exploration. Houston, TX: Houston Geological Society, pp. 99–146.
Davis, R. A., Jr., 1983. Depositional Systems: A Genetic Approach
to Sedimentary Geology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
Donaldson, A. C., Martin, R. H., and Kanes, W. H., 1970. Holocene
Guadalupe delta of Texas gulf coast. In Morgan, J. P. (ed.), Deltaic Sedimentation: Modern and Ancient. Tulsa, OK: Society of
Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication, Vol. 15, pp. 107–137.
Edmonds, D. A., and Slingerland, R. L., 2007. Mechanics of river
mouth bar formation: implications for the morphodynamics of
delta distributary networks. Journal of Geophysical Research,
112, F02034, doi:10.1029/2006JF000574.
Elliot, T., 1986. Deltas. In Reading, H. G. (ed.), Sedimentary Environments. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications,
pp. 113–154.
Esposito, C. R., Georgiou, I. Y., and Kolker, A. K., 2013. Hydrodynamic and geomorphic controls on mouth bar evolution. Geophysical Research Letters, 8, 1540–1545.
Fairbanks, R. G., 1989. A 17,000-year glacio-eustatic sea
level record: influence of glacial melting rates on the
younger dryas event and deep-ocean circulation. Nature, 342,
637–642.
Fenster, M. S., FitzGerald, D. M., Belknap, D. F., Knisley, B. A.,
Gontz, A., and Buynevich, I. V., 2005. Controls on estuarine sediment dynamics in Merrymeeting Bay, Kennebec River estuary,
Maine, U.S.A. In FitzGerald, D. M., and Knight, J. (eds.), High
Resolution Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of
Estuaries. New York: Springer, pp. 173–194.
Fisher, W. L., Brown, L. F. Jr., Scott, A. J., and McGowen, J. H.,
1969. Deltas Systems in the Exploration for Oil and Gas:
A Research Colloquium. University of Texas/Bureau of Economic Geology. Austin, Texas
Frazier, D. E., 1967. Recent deltaic deposits of the Mississippi
River: their development and chronology. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, 27, 287–315.
Galloway, W. E., 1975. Process framework for describing the morphologic and stratigraphic evolution of deltaic depositional systems. In Broussard, M. L. (ed.), Deltas: Models for Exploration.
Houston, TX: Houston Geological Society, pp. 87–96.
Gilbert, G. K., 1885. The topographical features of lake shores.
United States Geological Survey Annual Report, 5, 104–108.
Giosan, L., Constantinescu, S., Clift, P. D., Tabrez, A. R., Danish,
M., and Inam, A., 2006. Recent morphodynamics of the Indus
delta shore and shelf. Continental Shelf Research, 26,
1668–1684.
Giosan, L., Syvitski, J., Constantinescu, S., and Day, J., 2014. Climate change: protect the world’s deltas. Nature, 516, 31–33.
Goodbred, S. L., Jr., and Kuehl, S. A., 2000. The significance of
large sediment supply, active tectonism, and eustasy on margin
sequence development: late quaternary stratigraphy and evolution of the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta. Sedimentary Geology,
133, 227–248.
Guillén, J., and Palanques, A., 1997. A historical perspective of the
morphological evolution in the lower Ebro river. Environmental
Geology, 30, 174–180.
Ibáñez, C., Day, J. W., and Reyes, E., 2014. The response of deltas
to sea-level rise: natural mechanisms and management options to
adapt to high-end scenarios. Ecological Engineering, 65,
122–130.
Inman, D. L., and Nordstrom, C. E., 1971. On the tectonic and morphologic classification of coasts. Journal of Geology, 97, 1–21.
Kessel, R. H., 2003. Human modifications to the sediment regime of
the lower Mississippi River flood plain. Geomorphology, 56,
325–334.
Kindinger, J. L., 1988. Seismic stratigraphy of the MississippiAlabama shelf and upper continental slope. Marine Geology,
83, 79–94.
Kindinger, J. L., Balson, P. S., and Flocks, J. G., 1994. Stratigraphy
of the mississippi-alabama shelf and the mobile river incisedvalley system. In Dalrymple, R. W., Boyd, R., and Zaitlin,
B. A. (eds.), Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists. Special Publication, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 51, pp. 83–95.
Kostaschuk, R. A., 1985. River mouth processes in a fjord delta,
British Columbia Canada. Marine Geology, 69, 1–23.
Maldonado, A., 1975. Sedimentation, stratigraphy and development of the Ebro Delta, Spain. In Broussard, M. L. (ed.), Deltas:
Models for Exploration. Houston, TX: Houston Geological
Society, pp. 311–338.
Maselli, V., and Trincardi, F., 2013. Man made deltas. Scientific
Reports, 3, 1926, doi:10.1038/srep01926.
McEwen, M. C., 1969. Sedimentary facies of the modern Trinity
delta. In Lanlford, R. R., and Rogers, J. J. W. (eds.), Holocene
Geology of the Galveston Bay Area. Houston: Houston Geological Society, pp. 53–77.
McKee, B. A., Cohen, A. S., Dettman, D. L., Palacios-Fest, M. R.,
Alin, S. R., and Ntungumburanye, G., 2005. Paleolimnological
investigations of anthropogenic environmental change in Lake
Tanganyika: II. Geochronologies and mass sedimentation rates
based on 14C and 210Pb data. Journal of Paleolimnology, 34,
19–29.
Meade, R. H., 1996. River-sediment inputs to major deltas. In SeaLevel Rise and Coastal Subsidence, Coastal Systems and Continental Margins. Dordrecht: Springer, Vol. 2, pp. 63–85.
Milliman, J. D., and Meade, R. H., 1983. World-wide delivery
of river sediment to the oceans. The Journal of Geology,
91, 1–21.
Moore, G. T., and Asquith, D. O., 1971. Delta: term and concept.
Geological Society of America Bulletin, 82, 2563–2568.
Morse, D. G., 1994. Siliciclastic reservoir rocks. In Magoon, L. B.,
and Dow, W. G. (eds.), The Petroleum System – From Source to
Trap. AAPG Memoir #60, Tulsa, OK, pp. 121–139.
Morton, R. A., and Bernier, J. C., 2010. Recent subsidence-rate
reductions in the Mississippi Delta and their geological implications. Journal of Coastal Research, 26, 555–561.
Morton, R. A., and Price, W. A., 1987. Late quaternary sea-level
fluctuations and sedimentary phases of the Texas coastal plain
and shelf. In Nummedal, D., Pilkey, O. H., and Howard, J. D.
(eds.), Sea-Level Fluctuation and Coastal Evolution. Society
of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists. Special Publication, Tulsa, OK, 41, pp. 181–198.
Müller, G., 1966. The new Rhine delta in Lake Constance. In
Broussard, M. L. (ed.), Deltas: Models for Exploration. Houston, TX: Houston Geological Society, pp. 107–124.
Naidu, A. S., and Mowatt, T. C., 1975. Depositional environments
and sediment characteristics of the Colville and adjacent deltas,
Northern Arctic Alaska. In Broussard, M. L. (ed.), Deltas:
Models for Exploration. Houston, TX: Houston Geological
Society, pp. 283–307.
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model of a retrograding subdeltaic distributary of a riverdominated system. In Association for the Sciences of Limnology
and Oceanography, Abstracts with program, 12107, New
Orleans, LA.
Coleman, J. M., 1981. Deltas: Processes of Deposition and Models
for Exploration. Minnesota: Burgess.
Coleman, J. M., and Prior, D. B., 1980. Deltaic sand bodies. In
American Association of Petroleum Geologists Continuing Education Course. Tulsa, OK: American Association of Petroleum
Geologists. 171 p.
Coleman, J. M., and Wright, L. D., 1975. Modern river deltas: variability of processes and sand bodies. In Broussard, M. L. (ed.),
Deltas: Models for Exploration. Houston, TX: Houston Geological Society, pp. 99–146.
Davis, R. A., Jr., 1983. Depositional Systems: A Genetic Approach
to Sedimentary Geology. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall.
Donaldson, A. C., Martin, R. H., and Kanes, W. H., 1970. Holocene
Guadalupe delta of Texas gulf coast. In Morgan, J. P. (ed.), Deltaic Sedimentation: Modern and Ancient. Tulsa, OK: Society of
Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists Special Publication, Vol. 15, pp. 107–137.
Edmonds, D. A., and Slingerland, R. L., 2007. Mechanics of river
mouth bar formation: implications for the morphodynamics of
delta distributary networks. Journal of Geophysical Research,
112, F02034, doi:10.1029/2006JF000574.
Elliot, T., 1986. Deltas. In Reading, H. G. (ed.), Sedimentary Environments. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications,
pp. 113–154.
Esposito, C. R., Georgiou, I. Y., and Kolker, A. K., 2013. Hydrodynamic and geomorphic controls on mouth bar evolution. Geophysical Research Letters, 8, 1540–1545.
Fairbanks, R. G., 1989. A 17,000-year glacio-eustatic sea
level record: influence of glacial melting rates on the
younger dryas event and deep-ocean circulation. Nature, 342,
637–642.
Fenster, M. S., FitzGerald, D. M., Belknap, D. F., Knisley, B. A.,
Gontz, A., and Buynevich, I. V., 2005. Controls on estuarine sediment dynamics in Merrymeeting Bay, Kennebec River estuary,
Maine, U.S.A. In FitzGerald, D. M., and Knight, J. (eds.), High
Resolution Morphodynamics and Sedimentary Evolution of
Estuaries. New York: Springer, pp. 173–194.
Fisher, W. L., Brown, L. F. Jr., Scott, A. J., and McGowen, J. H.,
1969. Deltas Systems in the Exploration for Oil and Gas:
A Research Colloquium. University of Texas/Bureau of Economic Geology. Austin, Texas
Frazier, D. E., 1967. Recent deltaic deposits of the Mississippi
River: their development and chronology. Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies Transactions, 27, 287–315.
Galloway, W. E., 1975. Process framework for describing the morphologic and stratigraphic evolution of deltaic depositional systems. In Broussard, M. L. (ed.), Deltas: Models for Exploration.
Houston, TX: Houston Geological Society, pp. 87–96.
Gilbert, G. K., 1885. The topographical features of lake shores.
United States Geological Survey Annual Report, 5, 104–108.
Giosan, L., Constantinescu, S., Clift, P. D., Tabrez, A. R., Danish,
M., and Inam, A., 2006. Recent morphodynamics of the Indus
delta shore and shelf. Continental Shelf Research, 26,
1668–1684.
Giosan, L., Syvitski, J., Constantinescu, S., and Day, J., 2014. Climate change: protect the world’s deltas. Nature, 516, 31–33.
Goodbred, S. L., Jr., and Kuehl, S. A., 2000. The significance of
large sediment supply, active tectonism, and eustasy on margin
sequence development: late quaternary stratigraphy and evolution of the Ganges–Brahmaputra delta. Sedimentary Geology,
133, 227–248.
Guillén, J., and Palanques, A., 1997. A historical perspective of the
morphological evolution in the lower Ebro river. Environmental
Geology, 30, 174–180.
Ibáñez, C., Day, J. W., and Reyes, E., 2014. The response of deltas
to sea-level rise: natural mechanisms and management options to
adapt to high-end scenarios. Ecological Engineering, 65,
122–130.
Inman, D. L., and Nordstrom, C. E., 1971. On the tectonic and morphologic classification of coasts. Journal of Geology, 97, 1–21.
Kessel, R. H., 2003. Human modifications to the sediment regime of
the lower Mississippi River flood plain. Geomorphology, 56,
325–334.
Kindinger, J. L., 1988. Seismic stratigraphy of the MississippiAlabama shelf and upper continental slope. Marine Geology,
83, 79–94.
Kindinger, J. L., Balson, P. S., and Flocks, J. G., 1994. Stratigraphy
of the mississippi-alabama shelf and the mobile river incisedvalley system. In Dalrymple, R. W., Boyd, R., and Zaitlin,
B. A. (eds.), Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists. Special Publication, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 51, pp. 83–95.
Kostaschuk, R. A., 1985. River mouth processes in a fjord delta,
British Columbia Canada. Marine Geology, 69, 1–23.
Maldonado, A., 1975. Sedimentation, stratigraphy and development of the Ebro Delta, Spain. In Broussard, M. L. (ed.), Deltas:
Models for Exploration. Houston, TX: Houston Geological
Society, pp. 311–338.
Maselli, V., and Trincardi, F., 2013. Man made deltas. Scientific
Reports, 3, 1926, doi:10.1038/srep01926.
McEwen, M. C., 1969. Sedimentary facies of the modern Trinity
delta. In Lanlford, R. R., and Rogers, J. J. W. (eds.), Holocene
Geology of the Galveston Bay Area. Houston: Houston Geological Society, pp. 53–77.
McKee, B. A., Cohen, A. S., Dettman, D. L., Palacios-Fest, M. R.,
Alin, S. R., and Ntungumburanye, G., 2005. Paleolimnological
investigations of anthropogenic environmental change in Lake
Tanganyika: II. Geochronologies and mass sedimentation rates
based on 14C and 210Pb data. Journal of Paleolimnology, 34,
19–29.
Meade, R. H., 1996. River-sediment inputs to major deltas. In SeaLevel Rise and Coastal Subsidence, Coastal Systems and Continental Margins. Dordrecht: Springer, Vol. 2, pp. 63–85.
Milliman, J. D., and Meade, R. H., 1983. World-wide delivery
of river sediment to the oceans. The Journal of Geology,
91, 1–21.
Moore, G. T., and Asquith, D. O., 1971. Delta: term and concept.
Geological Society of America Bulletin, 82, 2563–2568.
Morse, D. G., 1994. Siliciclastic reservoir rocks. In Magoon, L. B.,
and Dow, W. G. (eds.), The Petroleum System – From Source to
Trap. AAPG Memoir #60, Tulsa, OK, pp. 121–139.
Morton, R. A., and Bernier, J. C., 2010. Recent subsidence-rate
reductions in the Mississippi Delta and their geological implications. Journal of Coastal Research, 26, 555–561.
Morton, R. A., and Price, W. A., 1987. Late quaternary sea-level
fluctuations and sedimentary phases of the Texas coastal plain
and shelf. In Nummedal, D., Pilkey, O. H., and Howard, J. D.
(eds.), Sea-Level Fluctuation and Coastal Evolution. Society
of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists. Special Publication, Tulsa, OK, 41, pp. 181–198.
Müller, G., 1966. The new Rhine delta in Lake Constance. In
Broussard, M. L. (ed.), Deltas: Models for Exploration. Houston, TX: Houston Geological Society, pp. 107–124.
Naidu, A. S., and Mowatt, T. C., 1975. Depositional environments
and sediment characteristics of the Colville and adjacent deltas,
Northern Arctic Alaska. In Broussard, M. L. (ed.), Deltas:
Models for Exploration. Houston, TX: Houston Geological
Society, pp. 283–307.
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181