Sediment fluxes within salt marsh tidal creek systems in the Yangtze Estuary

Creeks are essential for salt marshes by conveying water and sediment through this geomorphic system. In this paper, we investigate the mechanisms that determine the residual sediment flux using measurements conducted in tidal creeks in salt marshes of the Yangtze Estuary. A main creek and a secondary creek were studied to explore whether the...

Design of mangrove rehabilitation projects on tropical coasts

Mangroves have been proven to be an asset to coastlines because of their myriad advantages relating to coastal protection and stability. Unfortunately, in the past, due to economic necessities or other reasons, many of these mangrove swamps in tropical areas came under threat and were subsequently destroyed. As the awareness about the positive...

Long-term bio-geomorphological modelling of the formation and succession of salt marshes

The interaction between vegetation and the morphodynamics is considered to be an important process in salt marsh formation and succession. Therefore, the contribution of vegetation modelling on the long-term morphological development of salt marshes is assessed by implementing a vegetation growth model in the morphodynamic modelling software...

Defend and Develop: How spatial interventions for reducing flood risk can contribute to the improvement of the spatial and socio-economic quality for the local residents

A integrated strategy where the spatial intervention that are required for flood protection are integrated with the ecological quality and the socio-economic development.

De Delf

Local inhabitants were of the opinion that a river, or waterway, had existed North of Delweg. There were so-called "groundless" ditches (soft bottomed) and "Uterdieken" (lands outside the dykes). This old waterway therefore would have had no locks but small dykes. Borings and pressure soundings proved this idea to be true. The canal must have...

Tidal gullies in youngest peat layer of Groningen

Where the top layer of clayey substance was thin and the underlying peat layer thick, the shrinkage of the latter had been such that the clay-filled gullies appeared as ridges of about ½ to 1 m high in the field. Farmers sometimes call these ridges ,,natural dykes". In some places they have dug up parts of these ancient depots of good clay and...