Geological Society of America

8:00 AM

LATE QUATERNARY DELTA EVOLUTION IN THE NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO

John B. Anderson, Rice Univ, Houston, TX

39005 (Technical Sessions)

8:15 AM

DELTAIC HEADLAND EVOLUTION: TRANSITORY PHASES IN THE CONSTRUCTIONAL TO DESTRUCTIONAL DEPOSITIONAL SPECTRUM

Mark A. Kulp, Univ of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA and Duncan M. FitzGerald, Boston Univ, Boston, MA and Shea Penland, Univ of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA

46508 (Technical Sessions)

8:30 AM

ESTUARINE AND BATHYMETRIC CONTROLS ON SEASONAL SEDIMENT STORAGE IN THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI AND ATCHAFALAYA RIVERS

John J. Galler, Tulane Univ, New Orleans, LA and Mead Allison, Tulane Univ, New Orleans, LA

42592 (Technical Sessions)

8:45 AM

UNDERSTANDING THE QUATERNARY GEOLOGIC FRAMEWORK AND MODERN COASTAL PROCESSES OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTAIC REGION--A KEY TO RESTORATION

S. Jeffress Williams, U. S. Geol Survey, Woods Hole, MA and Shea Penland, Univ of New Orleans, NewOrleans, LA and Jack Kindinger, U.S. Geol Survey, St. Petersburg, FL and Mark A. Kulp, Univ of New Orleans, NewOrleans, LA

42989 (Technical Sessions)

9:15 AM

MODELING HOLOCENE STRATIGRAPHY AND DEPOCENTRE MIGRATION OF THE VOLGA DELTA DUE TO CASPIAN SEA-LEVEL CHANGE

Irina Overeem, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO and S.B. Kroonenberg, Delft University of Technology, Delft, N/A

38906 (Technical Sessions)

9:30 AM

AUTOINCISION AND AUTOGENIC STREAM TERRACES IN FLUVIO-DELTAIC SYSTEMS WITH THE STEADY FALL OF RELATIVE SEA LEVEL: IMPLICATIONS FROM FLUME EXPERIMENTS

Tetsuji Muto, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, N/A

44011 (Technical Sessions)

9:45 AM

LONG-DISTANCE IMPACT OF PO DELTA GROWTH ON THE SHORE-PARALLEL ADRIATIC PRODELTA WEDGE, DURING THE LATE HOLOCENE

Fabio Trincardi, Istituto di Geologia Marina (CNR), Bologna, N/A and Antonio Cattaneo, Istituto di Geologia Marina (CNR), Bologna, N/A and Annamaria Correggiari, Istituto di Geologia Marina (CNR), Bologna, N/A

43977 (Technical Sessions)

10:00 AM

MODELING THE GROWTH OF A DELTA: MODERN VS ANCIENT

James P.M. Syvitski, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, CO

38890 (Technical Sessions)

10:15 AM

THE MEGA-DELTAS OF ASIA: A DIFFERENT MODEL FOR DELTAIC SYSTEMS?

Steven L. Goodbred, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

41032 (Technical Sessions)

10:30 AM

HOLOCENE EVOLUTION OF THE TIDE-DOMINATED CHANGJIANG (YANGTZE) DELTA

Kazuaki Hori, Japan Society for the Promotion of Sci, Tsukuba, N/A and Yoshiki Saito, Geol Survey of Japan, AIST, Tsukuba, N/A and Quanhong Zhao, Tongji Univ, Shanghai, N/A and Pinxian Wang, Tongji Univ, Shanghai, N/A

41270 (Technical Sessions)

10:45 AM

THE EVOLUTION OF DELTAS: EXAMPLES FROM HOLOCENE ASIAN DELTAS

Yoshiki Saito, Geol Survey of Japan, AIST, Tsukuba, N/A

39721 (Technical Sessions)

11:00 AM

FLOOD-DOMINATED MOUTH BARS OF THE BURDEKIN RIVER DELTA, NORTH QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA

C.R. Fielding, Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE and J.D. Trueman, Univ of Queensland, Brisbane, N/A and J. Alexander, Univ of East Anglia, Norwich, N/A

41253 (Technical Sessions)

11:15 AM

GEOMORPHOLOGY AND RADAR STRATIGRAPHY OF THE WAVE-INFLUENCED WILLIAM RIVER DELTA, LAKE ATHABASCA, CANADA

Derald G. Smith, Univ Calgary, Calgary, AB and Harry M. Jol, Univ of Wisconsin- Eau Claire, Eau Claire, WI and Norman D. Smith, Univ Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

38912 (Technical Sessions)

11:30 AM

EVOLUTION OF A HYPERPYCNAL LACUSTRINE DELTA, RED RIVER/ LAKE TEXOMA, TEXAS-OKLAHOMA

Cornel Olariu, Univ of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX and Robert J. Stern, Univ of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX and Janok P. Bhattacharya, Univ of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX

40413 (Technical Sessions)

T211 Deltas—Old and New

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