Where Rivers and Oceans Collide

Authors

J. S. Crockett, University of Washington
C. A. Nittrouer, University of Washington
A. S. Ogston, University of Washington
R. W. Sternberg, University of Washington
N. W. Driscoll, University of California
J. Babcock, University of California
J. D. Milliman, College of William and Mary
R. Slingerland, Pennsylvania State University
D. F. Naar, University of South FloridaFollow
B. Donahue, University of South Florida
J. P. Walsh, East Carolina University
W. Dietrich, University of California
G. Parker, University of Minnesota
M. Bera, University of Papua New Guinea
H. Davies, University of Papua New Guinea
P. Harris, Geoscience Australia, Canberra
M. Goni, University of South Carolina
R. Aller, Stony Brook University
J. Aller, Stony Brook University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2005

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1029/2005EO030002

Abstract

Fluvial sediment fills the coastal ocean, and sea level rise floods river valleys. This epic battle of terrestrial and marine processes occurs along all shorelines, and the complexities are especially well revealed in the Gulf of Papua, a foreland basin on the southern coast of New Guinea. Two hundred to four hundred million tons of sediment are supplied each year by the Fly and other rivers to a continental shelf that has been dissected by ancestors of these same rivers. The new sediment builds a large depositional feature known as a clinoform, which grows seaward and buries the record of earlier environments.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, v. 86, issue 3, p. 25-32

©2005. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.

Scholar Commons Citation

Crockett, J. S.; Nittrouer, C. A.; Ogston, A. S.; Sternberg, R. W.; Driscoll, N. W.; Babcock, J.; Milliman, J. D.; Slingerland, R.; Naar, D. F.; Donahue, B.; Walsh, J. P.; Dietrich, W.; Parker, G.; Bera, M.; Davies, H.; Harris, P.; Goni, M.; Aller, R.; and Aller, J., "Where Rivers and Oceans Collide" (2005). Marine Science Faculty Publications. 2211.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/msc_facpub/2211