Delta progradation and chenier formation in the Huanghe (Yellow River) delta, China

Saito, Yoshiki; Wei, Hu; Zhou, Yongqing; Nishimura, Akira; Satō, Yoshio; Yokota, Setsuya

doi:10.1016/s1367-9120(99)00080-2

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“…Of this total sediment flux, ~70% or ~13 x 10 9 tons is believed to discharge from the eastern and southern Asian Pacific and oceanic margins alone (Milliman and Meade, 1983;Milliman and Syvitski, 1992;Ludwig et al, 1996;Milliman, 1995). In eastern and southern Asia, about one-third to one-half of river-derived sediments are trapped in the river's low reaches and contribute to extensive floodplain and delta plain development, for example the Yellow (Saito et al, 2000), Yangtze (Hori et al, 2002), Pearl (Zong et al, 2009), Red (Tanabe et al, 2003); Mekong (Nguyen et al, 2000;Ta et al, 2002), Ganges-Brahmaputra (G-B) (Goodbred et al, 2003), and Indus (Giosan et al, 2006). Among the remaining sediments delivered to the ocean, how much is trapped near the river mouth, and how much is able to reach the deep ocean is still not completely clear.…”

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Fate of sediments delivered to the sea by Asian large rivers: Long-distance transport and formation of remote alongshore clinothems

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Xue²,

Ross³

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Recent studies show that the global flux of river-derived sediment reaching the coasts and oceans is about 15-19 x 10 9 tons per year. New sediment budgets for the major Asian river systems (e.g.,Yellow, Yangtze, Mekong, Ganges-Brahmaputra, etc.) suggest that 30-50% of their sediment load has been retained in the lower channel reaches to form an extensive subaerial delta plain, while the rest is discharged to the sea. Of the sediment load reaching the ocean, about half has been found to accumulate near the river mouth as a proximal subaqueous delta clinothem. However, the remaining sediment is found to be transported up to 600-800 km alongshore, ultimately being deposited as a shore-parallel middle-shelf clinothem.These clinoform deposits are generally <100 km in across-shelf width, 20-40 m thick nearshore, and pinch-out gradually seaward at 40-90 m water depth.A secondary nearshore depocenter can usually be found along the shelf away from the river mouth, with mud-lobe accumulation up to 40-50 m thick locally. Except for a few systems with shelf-indenting canyons (e.g., Ganges-Brahmaputra and Indus), most of Asian riverderived sediments are trapped on the inner and middle shelf, unable to reach the deep ocean (i.e., >150 m) despite having been transported hundreds of kilometers from their mouths.

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Fate of sediments delivered to the sea by Asian large rivers: Long-distance transport and formation of remote alongshore clinothems

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Ross³

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“…Their presence has been documented, for example, on the Guyana-Surinam-French Guiana coast of South America (Daniel, 1989;Prost, 1989, in England (e.g., Greensmith and Tucker, 1969), along the Chinese coast (Xitao, 1986(Xitao, , 1989Qinshang et al, 1989;Wang and Ke, 1989;Saito et al, 2000), in western Africa (Anthony, 1989), on the northern coast of Australia (Wright and Coleman, 1973;Short, 1989), on the North Island of New Zealand (Woodroffe et al, 1983), on marine and inland sea coasts of the former Soviet Union (see Shuisky, 1989, for a summary) and on the Mekong delta of southern Vietnam (e.g., Nguyen et al, 2000).…”

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“…Many regions worldwide appear similar to the chenier plain coast of Louisiana; chenier plains, extensive mudflats, and high sediment supply are present in China (Wang and Ke, 1989;Xitao, 1989;Saito et al, 2000Saito et al, , 2001Wang et al, 2002c), the Atlantic coast of northern South America (Eisma and Van der Marel, 1971;Wells and Coleman, 1981a, b;Augustinus et al, 1989;Daniel, 1989;Prost, 1989;Allison et al, 1995a, b) and in many other areas (e.g., Augustinus, 1989;Flemming, 2002; see Chapter 1).…”

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Fine-grained sedimentation on the Chenier Plain Coast and inner continental shelf, northern Gulf of Mexico

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2003

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“…Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1980;Pang and Si, 1980;Li and Finlayson, 1993;Zeng, 1997;Saito et al, 2000). In some cases this affected a large number of people and the collapse of regional economies (e.g.…”

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Progradation of the Yellow (Huanghe) River delta in response to the implementation of a basin-scale water regulation program

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The water and sediment supply to the lower reach and estuary of the Yellow (Huanghe) River have been altered to a very significant degree by the construction of numerous small to large reservoirs and the progressive implementation of water and soil conservation measures across the entire drainage basin since the late 1950s, followed by a basin-scale water regulation program since 2002. There is an urgent need to know how progradation of the Yellow River delta (YRD), an area on which people live and farm, has continued and will continue to respond to these controls. This study examines the changing patterns of water and sediment supply to the YRD over the period of 1950-2013 and, using remote sensing, it evaluates the morphological changes of the delta during 1976-2013. Although both water and sediment input to the delta have been described as declining significantly since the mid 1960s, we show that since 2005 the supply of water has remained at around 20 billion m 3 yr −1 and that for sediment at about 0.13 billion t yr −1 ; water input has been even slightly increasing. The dynamics of extension/shrinking and avulsion in river-mouth channels and accretion/erosion of shorelines is an integrated response to the complex variations in both sediment and water supply. This study develops a quantitative relationship between water and sediment supply and the area of land accretion and it predicts the critical condition for land accretion in the YRD. To ensure that delta land will not be lost, care is needed in the future implementation of the basin-scale water regulation program.

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Delta progradation and chenier formation in the Huanghe (Yellow River) delta, China

Cited by 223 publications

References 11 publications

Fate of sediments delivered to the sea by Asian large rivers: Long-distance transport and formation of remote alongshore clinothems

Fate of sediments delivered to the sea by Asian large rivers: Long-distance transport and formation of remote alongshore clinothems

Fine-grained sedimentation on the Chenier Plain Coast and inner continental shelf, northern Gulf of Mexico

Progradation of the Yellow (Huanghe) River delta in response to the implementation of a basin-scale water regulation program

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