The Flood and Sediment Characteristics of the Lower Yellow River in China

Soong, Ta Wei; Zhao, Yean

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“…Traditionally, sedimentation in upper alluvial and coastal plain settings has been envisioned as being produced by singlethread meandering rivers. However, the pattern of sedimentological structures at Red Hill conforms to a model of periodic avulsion FLD020-01 1st pgs page 9 FLD020-01 1st pgs page 10 like that described in recent studies of modern fi ne-grained fl uvial systems that show these systems cycling through two stages with a typical period on the order of 1000 years (Smith et al, 1989;Soong and Zhao, 1994;Slingerland and Smith, 2004). Stage I begins when a channel changes course by permanently breaching its levee.…”

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Late Devonian paleontology and paleoenvironments at Red Hill and other fossil sites in the Catskill Formation of north-central Pennsylvania

Daeschler

Cressler²

2011

From the Shield to the Sea: Geological Field Trips From the 2011 Joint Meeting of the GSA Northeastern and North-Central Sectio

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The stratifi ed red beds of the Catskill Formation are conspicuous in road cut exposures on the Allegheny Plateau of north-central Pennsylvania. During this fi eld trip we will visit and explore several fossil localities within the Catskill Formation. These sites have been central to recent investigations into the nature of Late Devonian continental ecosystems. By the Late Devonian, forests were widespread within seasonally wellwatered depositional basins and the spread of plants on land from the late Silurian through the Devonian set the stage for the radiation of animals in both freshwater and terrestrial settings. A diverse assemblage of fl ora and fauna has been recovered from the Catskill Formation including progymnosperms, lycopsids, spermatophytes, zygopterid and stauripterid ferns, barinophytes, invertebrates and invertebrate traces, and vertebrates such as placoderms, acanthodians, chondrichthyans, actinopterygians, and a variety of sarcopterygians including early tetrapods. Since the early 1990s, highway construction projects along the Route 15 (Interstate 99) have provided a new opportunity for exploration of the Catskill Formation in Lycoming and Tioga counties. The faunas along Route 15 are dominated by Bothriolepis sp. and Holoptychius sp. and also include Sauripterus taylori and an assortment of other interesting records. The most productive Catskill site, and the source of early tetrapod remains, is Red Hill in Clinton County. Red Hill presents a diverse and unique fl ora and fauna that is distinct from Route 15 sites, and also provides a spectacular section of the alluvial plain deposits of the Duncannon Member of the Catskill Formation.

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Section: Red Hill Sedimentologysupporting

confidence: 62%

Late Devonian paleontology and paleoenvironments at Red Hill and other fossil sites in the Catskill Formation of north-central Pennsylvania

Daeschler

Cressler²

2011

From the Shield to the Sea: Geological Field Trips From the 2011 Joint Meeting of the GSA Northeastern and North-Central Sectio

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“…In its nearly 2000 years of recorded history, the Yellow River has experienced seven major avulsions affecting 250,000 km 2 , each time disrupting the lives of eight to fourteen million people with countless loss of life and property damage (Soong & Zhao 1994). Beyond these immediate effects of channel relocation lie a host of related effects.…”

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“…Does the rate of aggradation or the amount of sediment load also matter? The bed of the lower Yellow River each year rises an astonishing 10 cm, and the average sediment concentration of its waters is 30 kg/m 3 , the highest among large rivers of the world (Soong & Zhao 1994), implicating these factors as possible causes too.…”

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River Avulsions and Their Deposits

Slingerland

Smith

2004

Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci.

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Avulsion is the natural process by which flow diverts out of an established river channel into a new permanent course on the adjacent floodplain. Avulsions are primarily features of aggrading floodplains. Their recurrence interval varies widely among the few modern rivers for which such data exist, ranging from as low as 28 years for the Kosi River (India) to up to 1400 years for the Mississippi. Avulsions cause loss of life, property damage, destabilization of shipping and irrigation channels, and even coastal erosion as sediment is temporarily sequestered on the floodplain. They are also the main process that builds alluvial stratigraphy. Their causes remain relatively unknown, but stability analyses of bifurcating channels suggest that thresholds in the relative energy slope and Shields parameter of the bifurcating channel system are key factors.

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“…With a few notable exceptions (e.g. Hicks, 1994;Soong and Zhao, 1994;Gomez et al, 1995;Ondieki, 1995;Walling et al, 1997;Lenzi and Marchi, 2000), there are a limited number of direct measurements of suspended sediment transport during extreme floods, primarily because of logistical difficulties in sampling overbank flows during hazardous conditions. Tropical cyclones (TCs), also known as 'hurricanes' and 'typhoons', are the major cause of floods in the humid tropics (Gupta, 1988).…”

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Suspended sediment transport during tropical‐cyclone floods in Fiji

Kostaschuk

Terry

Raj³

2002

Hydrological Processes

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Abstract:Flow records, rising-stage sediment samplers, and a sand suspension model are used to examine suspended sediment concentrations during major floods caused by tropical cyclones TC Joni and TC Kina in the Rewa River, Fiji. The highest concentrations of total suspended solids were measured during the early stages of TC Kina. The suspension model predicts higher sand concentrations for TC Kina compared with TC Joni because of the larger slope and higher shear stresses during Kina. Extremely high wash load concentrations early in TC Kina are at least partly due to remobilization of fine sediment deposited during the earlier TC Joni flood. Samples from the TC Kina had volumetric concentrations larger than 5%, indicating hyperconcentrated streamflows. Mass-density shear stresses in the hyperconcentrated flows are up 1Ð6 times larger than clear-water shear stresses, but they occur early during low stages of the flood and probably do not result in severe bed erosion.

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The Flood and Sediment Characteristics of the Lower Yellow River in China

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Late Devonian paleontology and paleoenvironments at Red Hill and other fossil sites in the Catskill Formation of north-central Pennsylvania

Late Devonian paleontology and paleoenvironments at Red Hill and other fossil sites in the Catskill Formation of north-central Pennsylvania

River Avulsions and Their Deposits

Suspended sediment transport during tropical‐cyclone floods in Fiji

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