Sedimentological history of Bryant Canyon area, northwest Gulf of Mexico, during the last 135 kyr (Marine Isotope Stages 1–6): A proxy record of Mississippi River discharge

Highstand vs. lowstand turbidite system growth in the Makran active margin: Imprints of high-frequency external controls on sediment delivery mechanisms to deep water systems

“…Although there has been some continued focus on sea-level in conceptual stratigraphic model that predict the delivery and formation of deep water deposits at 5th to 6th orders, corresponding to time scales b100 ka (Bouma et al, 1989;Posamentier et al, 1991;Brami et al, 2000;Catuneanu et al, 2009), an increasing number of studies show that climatically-driven variations in fluvial water and sediment discharge have a strong influence on turbidite system growth. This includes both glacially/ice-sheetcontrolled (Skene and Piper, 2003;Zaragosi et al, 2006;Tripsanas et al, 2007;Toucanne et al, 2008); and monsoon-controlled (Ducassou et al, 2009) Pleistocene turbidite systems along passive margins. However, less data is available concerning high-frequency forcings on tectonically active systems such as fold-and-thrust belts depositional systems in convergent margins.…”

Reconstruction of North American drainage basins and river discharge since the Last Glacial Maximum

“…In spite of the broad knowledge that river systems and drainage basins have changed significantly since the LGM (Upham, 1883;Bell, 1889;Clayton and Moran, 1982;Dyke and Prest, 1987;Wright, 1987;Teller, 1990a, b;Marshall and Clarke, 1999;Patterson, 1997Patterson, , 1998Licciardi et al, 1999;Overeem et al, 2005;Tarasov and Peltier, 2006;Wickert, 2014;Ullman et al, 2014;Margold et al, 2014;Ullman et al, 2015;Margold et al, 2015), many studies do not include any clear picture of drainage basin evolution. This results in representations of the modern drainage network wholly or partially in place of glacial-stage drainage basins (e.g., Blum et al, 2000;Sionneau et al, 2008;Montero-Serrano et al, 2009;Sionneau et al, 2010;Kujau et al, 2010;Lewis and Teller, 2006;Tripsanas et al, 2007Tripsanas et al, , 2014Rittenour et al, 2003Rittenour et al, , 2005Rittenour et al, , 2007Knox, 2007) that help to propagate a lack of consciousness about the continental-scale hydrologic changes that occurred, even in cases when the study acknowledges in the text that past drainage pathways were different. The best current Cenozoic history of Mississippi River drainage does not attempt to place its northern drainage basin boundary during the Pleistocene (Galloway et al, 2011).…”

Long-term hydrological changes in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico (ODP-625B) during the Holocene and late Pleistocene inferred from organic-walled dinoflagellate cysts

“…To better understand the impact of these parameters on the regional climate, a number of marine sediment studies has focused on the hydrologic evolution of the basin during the Holocene (Poore et al, 2003;Lo Dico et al, 2006;Richey et al, 2007;Meckler et al, 2008;Montero-Serrano et al, 2010) and the last interglacial (LIG) interval (Joyce et al, 1990(Joyce et al, , 1993Tripsanas et al, 2007;Nürnberg et al, 2008;Ziegler et al, 2008;Kujau et al, 2010;Montero-Serrano et al, 2011;Simms et al, 2013). The LIG, referred to as Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5e in marine sediments and spanning the interval between~130 and 115 kyrs (Liesecki and Raymo, 2005), has experienced conditions warmer than those of the current interglacial in response to higher levels of insolation during boreal summer (e.g., CAPE, 2006;Otto-Bliesner et al, 2006;Hearty et al, 2007).…”

“…Model simulations for different sea-level (white: -100 mbsl; light grey: -80 mbsl; dark grey: -40 mbsl; black: -20 mbsl) (Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University) and the position of the modern and MIS 6 Mississippi delta(Tripsanas et al, 2007).…”