Sedimentary Processes and Instability on the Mississippi River Delta Front near the Shipwreck of the SS Virginia

Sedimentary Processes and Instability on the Mississippi River Delta Front near the Shipwreck of the SS Virginia

Sediment cores were collected from a mudflow lobe (80 m water depth) offshore of the Mississippi River’s Southwest Pass in 2017 to better understand the sedimentology near the lobe entraining the SS Virginia shipwreck (sunk by a German U-boat in 1942) and surrounding Mississippi River delta front. C...

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Main Authors: Nathan Figueredo, Samuel J. Bentley, Jason D. Chaytor, Kehui Xu, Navid Jafari, Ioannis Y. Georgiou, Melanie Damour, Jeffrey Duxbury, Jeffrey Obelcz, Jillian Maloney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-01-01
Series:Water
Subjects:
Mississippi river delta
sediment deposition
fine-grained sediment transport
sedimentary fabric
sediment gravity flow
slope stability
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/16/3/421

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