Structures and processes in bayhead deltas: Knight and bute inlet, British Columbia

Depositional evolution of a progradational to aggradational, mixed-influenced deltaic succession: Jurassic Tofte and Ile formations, southern Halten Terrace, offshore Norway

“…Other potential modern analogues of such coarse grained deltas with tide-influence occur in bayhead deltas in fjords such as the Klimaklini and Honuthko (Syvitski and Farrow, 1983) and Bella Coola river deltas in Canada (Kostaschuk and McCann, 1983;Kostaschuk, 1985). However, descriptions of tide-influenced braid deltas in the geological record are sparse.…”

“…supply from the hinterland (Hine and Boothroyd, 1978;Kostaschuk and McCann, 1983;Syvitski and Farrow, 1983;Kostaschuk, 1985;McPherson et al, 1987;Orton and Reading, 1993;Fielding et al, 2005b;Fielding et al, 2006). In addition, recognition of tidal process in coarse grained deposits is problematic (Dashtgard and Gingras, 2007).…”

Hydrotrend: A Climate-Driven Hydrologic-Transport Model for Predicting Discharge and Sediment Load to Lakes or Oceans

“…The sediment-rating coecients for each discharge component (rain, nival, glacier) were obtained from Environment Canada data (Binda and others, 1986). Syvitski and Alcott (1995a) showed the present-day simulations agree well with measured discharge and sediment-load data (Syvitski and Farrow, 1983) despite these limitations. The river5.dat input ®le, including the modern monthly statistics and sediment rating coecients, is supplied in Table 1 with the code for the interested reader.…”

Undersea landslides: extent and significance in the Pacific Ocean, an update

“…Some fjord-delta deposits are so near instability that they fail during greater than average low tides. Many of these steep slopes, with weak sediment that is susceptible to cyclic loading, fail seasonally or semi-continuously (Syvitski and Farrow, 1983;Prior et al, 1986). These already weak fjordhead delta slopes episodically fail and produce catastrophic effects, such as occurred in Valdez (Coulter and Migliaccio, 1966), Seward (Lemke, 1967) and Whittier (Kachadoorian, 1965) in the 1964 Alaska earthquake or in static failure events, such as occurred in Kitimat Arm, Canada (Prior et al, 1982a, b).…”