Entries by Tian Dong

Geomorphology: Stepwise morphological evolution of the active Yellow River (Huanghe) delta lobe (1976–2013): Dominant roles of riverine discharge and sediment grain size

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Stepwise morphological evolution of the active Yellow River (Huanghe) delta lobe (1976–2013): Dominant roles of riverine discharge and sediment grain size Xiao Wu, Naishuang Bi, Jingping Xu, Jeffrey A. Nittrouer, Zuosheng Yang, Yoshiki Saito, Houjie Wang The presently active Yellow River (Huanghe) delta lobe has been formed since 1976 when the river was artificially diverted. […]

Sci.Adv.: The exceptional sediment load of fine-grained dispersal systems: Example of the Yellow River, China

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Hongbo Ma, Jeffrey A. Nittrouer, Kensuke Naito, Xudong Fu, Yuanfeng Zhang, Andrew J. Moodie, Yuanjian Wang, Baosheng Wu and Gary Parker http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/5/e1603114 Sedimentary dispersal systems with fine-grained beds are common, yet the physics of sediment movement within them remains poorly constrained. We analyze sediment transport data for the best-documented, fine-grained river worldwide, the Huanghe (Yellow River) of China, where sediment flux is underpredicted […]

JGR-ES: Morphodynamic modeling of fluvial channel fill and avulsion time scales during early Holocene transgression, as substantiated by the incised valley stratigraphy of the Trinity River, Texas

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Kaitlin E. Moran , Jeffrey A. Nittrouer, Mauricio M. Perillo, Jorge Lorenzo-Trueba, and John B. Anderson Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface (2016) doi:10.1002/2015JF003778 The Trinity River system provides a natural laboratory for linking fluvial morphodynamics to stratigraphy produced by sea-level rise, because the sediments occupying the Trinity incised valley are well constrained in terms […]

ESCI 546 Basin Analysis: Field Trip to Ireland

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Overview ESCI 546 “Advance Topic in Basin Sedimentology and Stratigraphy ” participated in a field trip to County Clare, western Ireland, from May 2nd to May 12th, 2016. The class visited sea-cliff exposures of rocks found in the Western Irish Namurian Basin (WINB), which were deposited during the Upper Carboniferous (326 Ma – 317 Ma). The […]

GSAB: Controls on gravel termination in seven distributary channels of the Selenga River Delta, Baikal Rift basin, Russia

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Controls on gravel termination in seven distributary channels of the Selenga River Delta, Baikal Rift basin, Russia The Geological Society of America Bulletin (2016) doi:10.1130/B31427.1 T. Y. Dong, J. A. Nittrouer, E. Il’icheva, M. Pavlov, B. McElroy, M. J. Czapiga, H. Ma, G. Parker The Selenga River Delta, Lake Baikal, Russia, is ∼600 km2 in size […]