Sediments storage

Sediment storage and remobilization involves huge mass fluxes and can respond rapidly to... 

Allison, M.A., Nittrouer, C.A., and Kineke, GC. (1995) Seasonal sediment storage on mudflats adjacent the Amazon River. Mar. Geol. 125, 303-328. 

Sutula, M., Bianchi, T.S., and McKee, B. (2004) Effect of seasonal sediment storage in the lower Mississippi River on the flux of reactive particulate phosphorus to the Gulf of Mexico. Limnol. Oceanogr. 49, 2223-2235. 

Allison, M, A., C. A. Nittrouer, and G. C. Kineke. 1995. "Seasonal sediment storage on mudflats adjacent to the Amazon River. Marine Geology 125 303-328. 

Tectonic processes provide the material of which landscapes are made. Tectonism produces uplift followed by erosion, or subsidence followed by deposition. Sediment storage makes the calculation of denudation rates rather time-scale-dependent. 

Coastal wetlands are generally considered to be sinks for waterborne particulate matter (Meade, 1972). Sediment storage areas such as mudflats and channels, however, often fail to show stratification, perhaps because these deposits tend to be uniformly fine-grained and/or intensely biotur-bated (Ellis, 1%2 Rhoads, 1967). In addition, their susceptibility to cycles of erosion and deposition severely limits their scope as historical repositories. Sediment incorporated within the peat matrix, however, is relatively well protected from physical disturbance and, therefore, its depth distribution may reflect historical sediment-generating processes in the environment. 

The construction of systems of flow control and sediment storage (decanting pools, as small ecologically functional wetlands) are proposed at the basis of the concave slopes, gauged by the methodology of the lECA (Fifield, 2004). 

Pimentel, D., and Stricldand, E. L. (1999). Decreased rates of alluvial sediment storage in the Coon Creek Rasin, Wisconsin, 1975—93, Science 286, 1477-1478. 

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