Building and Raising Land: Mud and Vegetation Effects in Infilling Estuaries.

ABSTRACT: Many Holocene estuaries were infilled to form convergent, single-channel systems, while others remained partially or wholly unfilled. This difference in the degree of infilling depends partly on the balance between fluvial and coastal sediment input and the hydrodynamics that can export sediment. However, it remains unclear to what degree this balance is tipped by mud supply and eco-engineering vegetation, and by what planform patterns the infilling proceeds. This study aims to explore experimentally how mud and vegetation change the degree and process of infilling, elevate and merge bars above intertidal levels and affect the planform of estuaries. To this end, three experiments were conducted in the Metronome, a flume that tilts periodically to create tidal currents, wherein forced tidal

SUBMITTER: Weisscher SAH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9286589 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature