Transmission of climate, sea-level, and tectonic singals across river systems

Title

Transmission of climate, sea-level, and tectonic singals across river systems

 Author

Forzoni, A.

Contributor

Luthi, S.M. (promotor)
Storms, J.E.A. (promotor)

Faculty

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

 Department

Geoscience & Engineering

 Date

2015-03-11

 Abstract

This thesis investigates the impact of climatic, tectonic, and sea-level changes (external forcing) on river systems (source-to-sink) and how these changes are recorded in the stratigraphic record. It describes a newly developed numerical tool (PaCMod) to simulate the complex fluvial system sediment flux response to external forcing on a geological time scale. Numerical modelling simulations, combined with field data indicated that the late Quaternary evolution of the Golo River system (France) was controlled by a complex interaction of sea-level and climatic forcing. Stratigraphic analysis in the Panther Tongue delta (Utah) showed how different parts of an ancient shoreline reacted differently to the same changes in external forcing, which consequently, have a different stratigraphic expression along depositional strike.

 Subject

sediment flux
catchment modeling
fluvio-deltaic stratigraphy

 To reference this document use:

https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:de436194-e41e-4217-aaf8-2d43237ecf61

 ISBN

978-94-6295-108-2

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

doctoral thesis

 Rights

(c) 2015 Forzoni, A.
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