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T. Hasiotis M. Charalampakis A. Stefatos G. Papatheodorou G. Ferentinos 《Geo-Marine Letters》2006,26(4):199-211
High-resolution geophysical surveys (seismic, side-scan sonar) offshore of the Eratini River, a seasonally flowing river in the NW Gulf of Corinth, Greece, revealed a small fan delta with a variety of bottom features (blocky deposits, chutes and sediment instabilities). Considering the relatively small size of this river, however, these features could not be explained as being produced solely by river flow processes. Based on morphological features, the fan delta can be subdivided into a high- and a low-energy area. Sedimentation processes in the fan delta are associated with flood-derived sediment input, hyperpycnal flows which erode the fan surface, mud settling from suspension plumes, shelf sedimentation and sediment failures. The observed blocky deposits are considered to be the result of earthquake-induced mass flows in 1965 and 1995, whereas the chutes would be produced both by erosive mass flows and by hyperpycnal currents. The bulk block sediment volume has probably resulted from the 1965 earthquake. The 1965 evacuation zone and the related chutes were buried by the prograding fan delta. The main causative factor triggering the observed sediment instabilities is considered to be liquefaction, which is caused by (1) frequent earthquake-induced cyclic loading and (2) low sediment shear strengths created by rapid deposition during floods, in both cases associated with high pore-water pressures. 相似文献
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Numerical experiments in an idealized river mouth are conducted using a three-dimensional hydrodynamics model (EFDC model) to examine the impacts of suspended sediment concentration (SSC), settling velocity of sediment and tidal mixing on the formation and maintenance of estuarine hyperpycnal flows. The standard experiment presents an illustrative view of hyperpycnal flows that carry high-concentrated sediment and low-salinity water in the bottom layer (>1.0 m in thickness) along the subaqueous slope. The structure and intra-tidal variation of the simulated hyperpycnal flows are quite similar to those previously observed off the Huanghe (Yellow River) mouth. Results from the three control experiments show that SSC of river effluents is the most important parameter to the formation of hyperpycnal flows. High SSC will increase the bulk density of river effluents and thus offset the density difference between freshwater and seawater. Low SSC of river effluents will produce a surface river plume, as commonly observed in most large estuaries. Both the settling velocity of sediment particles and the tidal mixing play an important role in maintaining the hyperpycnal flows. Increasing settling velocity enhances the deposition of sediment from the hyperpycnal layer and thus accelerates the attenuation of hyperpycnal flows, whereas increasing tidal mixing destroys the stratification of water column and therefore makes the hyperpycnal flows less evident. Our results from numerical experiments are of importance to understand the initiation and maintenance of hyperpycnal flows in estuaries and provide a reference to the rapidly decaying hyperpycnal flows off the Huanghe river mouth due to climatic and anthropogenic forcing over the past several decades. 相似文献
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选用1996年9月5—6日黄河口新口门水文泥沙同步观测资料,采用距离倒数加权插值法(IDW)生成河口泥沙异重流的含沙海水密度、流速和含沙量随时间变化的等值线图。基于此,分析了黄河口泥沙异重流发育形成的时空变化特征,并结合遥感影像和水下地形图进一步探讨了泥沙异重流对河口沉积的影响。研究结果表明,黄河口(新口门)泥沙异重流发育频繁,且其形成时的含沙海水密度与老河口相似;泥沙异重流的空间分布与水下三角洲泥沙堆积体及河口沙嘴的形态存在明显相关,泥沙异重流的存在直接影响河口前缘泥沙的沉积,但对侧缘的影响不大;泥沙异重流形成初期,在低高潮涨潮阶段中的一次较小的涨落潮周期内其形成和消亡过程与潮流的涨落潮周期呈正向对应关系,且在这一时段的涨憩时泥沙异重流的泥沙含量达到最大;流速垂向分布为泥沙异重流形成初期流速小于上层海水流速,且层次分明,随其进一步向深海运动流速呈增大再减小的趋势,至三角洲前缘陡坡段其底层流速大干中上层海水流速。 相似文献
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黄河口快速沉积及其动力过程 总被引：3，自引：1，他引：2
现场观测资料和卫星遥感校准图像计算表明 ,185 5年以来 ,黄河三角洲新淤陆地 36 99km2 ,生长速率为 2 6 8km2 /a ,黄河输入三角洲 1× 10 8t泥沙形成 3 14 4km2 的陆地。进入河口区的泥沙约 88 4 %堆积在水下 8km宽的三角洲前缘。研究表明 ,这一堆积比例是河口切变锋、异重流和潮流场相互作用的结果 ,异重流在黄河汛期一直存在 ,大约搬运黄河来沙的 6 0 %沉积在三角洲前缘 ;一个潮周期内 ,切变锋出现两次 ,它能够捕获异轻羽状流中的悬浮泥沙堆积 ,也能够限制异重流的远距离扩散。切变锋消失后 ,少量悬浮泥沙才能远距离扩散 ,随潮流离开三角洲水下斜坡。 相似文献
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《Marine and Petroleum Geology》2003,20(6-8):733-755
The marine fill of ancient foreland basins is primarily recorded by depositional systems consisting of facies and facies associations deposited by a variety of sediment gravity flows in shallow-marine, slope and basinal settings. Tectonism and climate were apparently the main factors controlling the sediment supply, accommodation and depositional style of these systems. In marginal deltaic systems, sedimentation is dominated by flood-generated hyperpycnal flows that build up impressive accumulations of graded sandstone beds in front of relatively small high-gradient fan-deltas and river deltas. During periods of tectonically forced lowstands of sealevel, these systems may commonly shift basinward to shelfal and slope regions. Instability along the edges of these lowstand deltas and sand-laden hyperpycnal flows generate immature and coarse-grained turbidite systems commonly confined within structural depressions and generally encased in distal delta-front and prodeltaic deposits. Because of the close vertical and lateral stratigraphic relations between deltaic and turbidite-like facies, these marginal systems are herein termed ‘mixed depositional systems’. They are very common in the fill of foreland basins and represent the natural link between deltaic and basinal turbidite sedimentation.Basinal turbidite systems form in deeper water elongate highly subsiding troughs (foredeeps) that developed in front of advancing thrust systems. The impressive volumes of sheet-sandstones that form the fill of these troughs suggest that basinal turbidite systems are likely to form following periods of dramatic tectonic uplift of adjacent orogenic wedges and related high-amplitude tectonically-forced sealevel lowstands. In such deep basinal settings, sediment flux to the sea is dramatically increased by newly formed sediment in fluvial drainage basins and the subaerial and submarine erosion of falling-sealevel deltaic deposits generated during the uplift. Turbidity currents are very likely to be mainly triggered by floods, via hyperpycnal flows and related sediment failures, but can fully develop only in large-scale erosional conduits after a phase of catastrophic acceleration and ensuing bulking produced by bed erosion. This process leads to deepening and widening of the conduits and the formation of large-volume highly efficient bipartite currents whose energy dissipation is substantially reduced by the narrow and elongate basin geometry. These currents can thus carry their sediment load over considerable distances down the basin axis. 相似文献
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An erosional channel and upslope-climbing sediment waves have been observed in Ytre Orkdalsfjorden and the marine fjord branch Gaulosen off the mouth of Gaula River in Trondheimsfjorden, central Norway. The submarine channel (up to 100–150 m wide and 12 m deep) is interpreted as the pathway of hyperpycnal flows and turbidity currents. It can be traced for 20 km on the seafloor from the mouth of Gaula River down to 500 m of water depth. Based on swath bathymetry and seismic data, the sediment waves are shown to have an accumulated thickness of 50–60 m. They are up to 8 m high, have up to 1-km-long crests, and wavelengths of 100–900 m. The sediment waves are attributed to hyperpycnal flows and turbidity currents overflowing the banks of the channel. Many of the sediment waves were instigated by pre-existing topography created by mass movements since early Holocene times. 相似文献
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A study of suspended sediment concentration in the buoyant plume of the Fraser River, Canada, showed that unstratified flow conditions at the river mouth caused resuspension of sandy bed material and high concentrations of coarse sediment. When flow at the mouth was stratified, sediment was fine-grained and concentrations were low. Application of a multivariate model revealed that suspended sediment concentration along the plume axis was controlled primarily by distance seaward of the river mouth, secondly by tidal height, and least by sediment concentration in the river. 相似文献
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黄河水下三角洲沉积物输运及海底冲淤研究 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
根据黄河水下三角洲的特点,建立了一个垂直平均二维沉积物输运数学模型,结合潮流和沉积物资料,模拟研究了沉积物输运机制和海底冲淤演变过程。模拟结果表明,垂直河口射流的潮流决定了本区沉积物净输运的总体格局,风应力对悬浮泥沙和推移质泥沙运动也起到重要作用。潮流底应力和活动层厚度分布表明,黄河口门和埕岛油田附近海域是潮流底应力和活动层厚度高值区,为沉积物活跃区,海底稳定性弱,易于侵蚀再搬运。冲淤计算表明,埕岛油田附近海域为冲刷中心区;现在河口水下三角洲在断流时为冲刷区,正常行河时则转为淤积区。 相似文献
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L. D. Wright Z. -S. Yang B. D. Bornhold G. H. Keller D. B. Prior W. J. Wiseman Jr. 《Geo-Marine Letters》1986,6(2):97-105
The Huanghe (Yellow River) discharges extremely high suspended sediment concentrations (25 to 220 g/l) which favor sustained hyperpycnal plumes (underflows). Observations of weakly hyperpycnal unchannelized plumes and indirect evidence of strongly hyperpycnal channelized underflows over the delta front indicate the importance of these modes of sediment dispersal. The weakly hyperpycnal plumes occupy the entire water column over the shallow (<5 m) delta top. From a pronounced front near the break in slope at about 5 m depth, they descend over the delta-front slope as wide-spread underflows. Evidence of strongly hyperpycnal underflows was shown from subaqueous valleys partly filled with low-density mud. 相似文献
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Entrance morphologies and sediment characteristics were studied at Westport Harbour, a river mouth port located on the Buller River, New Zealand. The most frequent morphology found was that in which two submarine bars were present off the river mouth. When present, these bars were separated by a transverse channel running east from Carters Beach and terminating in the principal inlet channel. Sediment samples were collected and analysed for grain size, reliability (grain shape), and, in a few instances, mineralogy. The data collected suggested that longshore sediment transport is predominantly west to east and that river derived sediment is deflected to the east. The inner bar is predominantly a littoral drift related event whereas the outer bar, which is composed mainly of littoral drifted sediment, forms as a submarine extension of Carters Beach. Both bars can be modified by floods in the river, although modification of the outer bar is much less frequent because of the very high river flows required. Sediment can bypass directly across the river mouth only when the inner bar is present. On other occasions bypassing can only occur by transport through the transverse channel or over the outer bar, into the river channel and then onshore. 相似文献
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黄河三角洲前缘粉砂分布于河口外中部,三角洲侧缘或分流间湾黏土质粉砂分布于三角洲前缘粉砂体的两侧。分流改道时新的分流河口大多分布在老叶瓣三角洲侧缘或分流间湾位置。这样,年轻的三角洲前缘粉砂覆盖在老三角洲侧缘或分流间湾黏土质粉砂之上,与此同时,年轻的三角洲侧缘或分流间湾黏土质粉砂覆盖在老三角洲前缘粉砂之上,形成规律性的叠覆层序。在观察钻孔岩心时,正确判断某一层的沉积环境,追踪其物质来历,即判断是从哪一条分流河道搬运来的物质形成的,该分流河道的活动年代就是该层形成的年代。 相似文献
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长江口表层沉积物矿物磁性分区特征及其沉积环境指示意义 总被引：4，自引：1，他引：3
本研究旨在揭示现代长江口不同沉积环境铁磁性矿物的分布差异,寻找有效识别河口-陆架沉积环境的磁学指标,以便更好地将环境磁学应用于河口古环境研究。在长江口及邻近陆架的6个沉积环境:汊道、拦门沙、三角洲前缘斜坡、前三角洲、前三角洲-陆架过渡区和残留砂区,采集表层沉积物样品,进行粒度和磁性测量。结果显示,χ和SIRM在汊道和拦门沙呈现显著高值,HIRM、χfd%、χARM、χARM/χ和χARM/SIRM在前三角洲和前缘斜坡呈现显著高值,反映了陆源物质输运距离和河口沉积动力对磁性矿物分布的控制作用。因此,参数组合HIRM、χARM、χARM/χ和χARM/SIRM可用于识别全新世地层前缘斜坡和前三角洲-陆架;参数组合χ、SIRM和S-20mT可尝试用于识别汊道和拦门沙环境。 相似文献
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近期长江河口冲淤演变过程研究 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
基于长江河口1997年以来数字地形图和近期水文泥沙实测资料,分析研究了近期长江河口大量人工整治工程和流域水库工程建造影响下的河口河道自动调整过程。结果表明:1997-2013年河口段中上游河道微冲刷、拦门沙滩顶仍保持淤积外移、口门外侧近海域冲刷的态势略有增强,而其影响原因与历史时期的自然因素影响为主略有差异,近期人类高强度活动的影响贡献率增大。首先,南支至南港和北港中上游河段河床普遍发生冲刷,河床沙活动较活跃,床面微地貌沙波发育更明显,而口门外侧海域地形略有冲刷蚀退,这些变化与流域来沙锐减有直接关系;北支、北港口门、南槽和北槽河道拦门沙河段呈淤积,尤其北槽主航道的拦门沙河段6m水深浚深为12.5m后回淤量很大,这些与拦门沙河道动力结构环境、河口和海域再悬浮泥沙补给有关;局部河段出现强冲和强淤现象,与近期河口工程建造有关。所以,长江河口近期正处在对自然因素变化和人类活动增强的自我缓慢地自动调整和适应过程之中。 相似文献
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Tidal Flat Morphodynamic Processes of the Yangtze Estuary and Their Engineering Implications 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
YANG Shilun 《中国海洋工程》2000,14(3):307-320
—The intertidal flats are classified as"attached bar"."spit"and"isolated bar"in relation to theland.and"broad flat","sharp bank"and"eroded cliff"according to the shape of the cross-shore profile.Tidal currents on the flat are basically back and forth along the river channel banks but gyratory on theseaward side of the Chongming Island.The flow velocity on the intertidal flat is gradually reduced with in-creasing elevation.The river discharge strengthens ebb flows and modifies current asymmetry especiallyon the lower flat in neap tide.although hydrodynamics over the tidal flat is tide-dominated.The waveheight on the tidal flat is normally limited to a few decimeters although it changes with water depth.slopeand wind.Suspended sediment concentration over the tidal flat is typically hundreds to thousands ofmg/l.Although the delta has grown rapidly in history.the rate of growth is different in different periods.A maximum advancing rate of 330m/a was recently found in the central part of the river mouth towa 相似文献
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Rajasmita Goswami Neil C. Mitchell Andrea Argnani Simon H. Brocklehurst 《Geo-Marine Letters》2014,34(5):419-433
In the westernmost Ionian Sea lies a steep, tectonically active marine basin influenced by turbidity currents generated by terrigenous river input from the adjacent mountains and strong tidal currents propagating through the Strait of Messina. Like many young marine rifts, the basin is lined by steep streams draining the uplifting coasts and supplying sediment across narrow shelves. However, unlike many rifts, this basin is semi-enclosed. The present study explores the seabed morphology and sediment structures in this complex environmental setting, based on multibeam sonar, chirp profiler and seismic reflection data collected in 2006. Offshore channels include many that can be directly linked to onshore streams, suggesting that hyperpycnal flows are important for their formation. Near the Strait of Messina in depths shallower than 400 m, the channels are subdued, plausibly explained as an effect of strong tidal currents. The Messina Channel is characterised by abundant mass-wasting features along its outer bends, particularly on the Calabrian side. Coincidence of the channel course with faults suggests that the channel is structurally controlled in places. The chirp profiles generally show only shallow penetration, the evidence for coarse texture being consistent with the steep gradient of the basin that inhibits deposition from turbidity currents. By contrast, some locally discontinuous mounds exhibiting layered sub-bottom reflectors in the chirp profiles are interpreted as modern levee deposits formed from channelised turbidity current overspill. Overall, this semi-enclosed basin shows little evidence of substantial accumulations associated with modern turbidity current activity, any contemporaneous sediment supply evidently bypassing the area to be deposited in the Ionian Trench; as a consequence, this trench should be an archive of local slope failure and flood events. 相似文献
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长江口青草沙水库前沿河床演变与失稳风险研究 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1
位于长江口南北港分流口的青草沙水库是上海市最大的城市供水水源地,开展该水库前沿河床稳定性和失稳风险研究具有重要的理论意义和工程指导价值。基于此,利用长江口南北港分流口2000年至2013年期间实测的高精度地形资料,分析青草沙水库前沿河床近期地貌变化特征,为水库库堤安全预警提供相关理论支撑。结果表明:青草沙水库前沿河床冲淤变化在建库前后有明显差异,建库前总体表现为河槽冲刷、沙洲淤积,呈现准冲-淤振荡的性质;建库后变为幅度逐渐减弱的持续冲刷;沿河床河槽形态由U型向U型与V型河槽叠加的复式河槽转变。青草沙水库前沿沙体沿落潮主流方向下移,成形沙体呈先增长、再减少,最后趋于平衡的态势,隐形沙体大体呈减少趋势。青草沙水库库堤前沿近600 m位置是河床失稳的重点风险区域,尤其是水库库堤中上部河床处于不稳定状态,如前沿边坡所在河槽进一步逼近水库前沿,则河床面临进一步冲刷的可能。 相似文献
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广利河口拦门沙的沉积特征与冲淤过程的研究 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
为给广利河口航道的建设提供科学依据,通过对研究区现场调查,查明了广利河口拦门沙水动力特征、海底地形、底质特征和地层垂向分布特征。在进行沉积物分析与历史资料对比分析的基础上,探讨了拦门沙体的沉积特征和冲淤过程。分析认为,广利河口拦门沙是在浅海-潮坪基础上接受广利河、支脉河和溢洪河携运泥沙堆积而成,海岸滩涂沉积物和黄河口水下岸坡物质对拦门沙的发育也产生了一定的影响。在河流和海洋动力作用的改造下,现在拦门沙基本进入冲淤平衡时期。但近期由于人工因素的影响,拦门沙顶出现暂时的淤积。研究结果还表明：拦门沙体北侧水动力作用明显强于南侧,航道设计为东偏南较好。 相似文献
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任于灿 《海洋地质与第四纪地质》1992,12(4):59-68
本文主要根据黄河水利委员会多年固定断面的测量资料和海洋地质研究所1988年两个航次调查结果,结合黄河水沙资料的分析,对水下三角洲的地貌特征、地貌演化及形成机制进行了论述,尤其对三角洲前缘的地貌演化趋势进行了较详细地阐述。 相似文献
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闽江河口沉积结构与沉积作用 总被引：9，自引：0，他引：9
结合已有的闽江河口航道整治研究成果，在该河口采集了130多个表层沉积物样品。根据对沉积结构、河口沙坝类型和水动力条件的分析，探讨了闽江河口沉积物的分布规律和沉积作用机制。研究结果表明，1）闽江河口可划分为砂质、混合和泥质3个沉积区，它们分别代表三角洲前缘、前缘斜坡和前三角洲沉积环境；2）闽江河口各汊道径、潮流强度对比不同，河口沉积过程有显著差异。径流在川石水道的发育中居主导作用，潮流是塑造梅花水道的主要因素；3）河口沙坝类型受制于输出水流的扩散形式，闽江河口有多种类型的河口沙坝，川石水道的河口沙坝为水下突堤型，乌猪水道北侧发育了水下突堤型沙坝，熨斗水道为拦门沙型河口沙坝，梅花水道则是潮流脊型的河口沙坝。 相似文献