1 RIVER DELTAS RIVER DELTAS Depositional processes Depositional processes - Course Coastal Morphodynamics Course Coastal Morphodynamics GEO3 GEO3-4306; 4306; lecture lecture 4 Global sediment supply to coastal seas and oceans; location of major river deltas Nile Delta, Egypt Solo Delta, Java, Indonesia Morphological-sedimentological units of a delta Relation between delta area and river discharge
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4. 4. ProcessProcess--based classification based classification of of deltasdeltas5. 5. ReworkingReworking and and redistribution redistribution of of deltaic deltaic depositsdeposits –– degeneration degeneration of delta of delta systemssystems
Low energy Low energy wave and wave and tidal tidal regimeregimeOutflowing effluentsOutflowing effluentsProcessesProcesses; ; relative role relative role of:of:–– Bed Bed frictionfriction–– Flow inertiaFlow inertia–– Buoyancy Buoyancy of of outflowing outflowing water water massmass
Factors depend on:Factors depend on:–– Inlet geometry and basin depthInlet geometry and basin depth–– Outflow velocities/river dischargeOutflow velocities/river discharge–– Degree of tidal mixing in estuaryDegree of tidal mixing in estuary
Fully Fully turbulent jetturbulent jet–– High High outflow velocitiesoutflow velocities–– Homopycnal conditions Homopycnal conditions ((no density no density
effectseffects))–– ““deepdeep”” water water basinbasin
Model 1: Fully Turbulent Jet Flow patterns Fully Turbulent Jet
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Plane Turbulent Jet
Mouth bar development Inertia dominated system
Mouth Bar development friction-dominated system
Example Wolga Delta – Caspian Sea
Buoyant Buoyant jets and plumesjets and plumes
Relatively fresh Relatively fresh water in saline water in saline basinbasin; ; salt wedge salt wedge in in estuaryestuary;;High High outflow velocities outflow velocities -- inertiainertiaStratified conditionsStratified conditionsDevelopment Development of jets and of jets and buoyant buoyant plumes and plumes and frontsfrontsROFIROFI’’ss: : Regions Regions of of Fresh Fresh Water Water InfluenceInfluence
Stratification and entrainment in river mouth
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Flow pattern Buoyant jets and plumes Cross-sectional flow patterns in plumes
Flow patterns and internal waves: mixing
Plumes and frontal zones
River Plume Red River delta, Vietnam
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Solo Delta, Java, Indonesia
Growth pattern Solo Delta, East Java Mouth bar development in river mouth
Plume observations Plume observations and and modellingmodelling
Salinity Salinity and and temperature profilestemperature profilesFlow Flow field and field and concentration concentration of of suspended suspended matter (SPM)matter (SPM)Analytical Analytical models models outflow outflow and and depositiondeposition3D 3D numerical modellingnumerical modelling
Indonesian delta systems
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Discharge regime rivers in humid tropical zone
Stratified River plumes
Analytical modelling
-Flow field
-SPM conc.
-Deposition rates
Predictions flow field and plume tickness
Deposition rates from plume MahakamMahakam Delta Delta
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Ba Lat delta, Red River Delta, Vietnam
River discharge
Discharge• 3600 m3/s• Sediment: 100 106 ton/year
Wet season• High discharge• 80% sediment transport
Dry season• Low discharge
Longshore flow
Cross-shore flow
Sediment concentration
Salinity
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Hyperpycnal Hyperpycnal jets and plumesjets and plumes
River River water water density larger than density larger than seawater densityseawater density–– Large suspended load Large suspended load (>200.000 (>200.000 ppmppm))–– HighHigh--salinity values arid regionssalinity values arid regions
GravityGravity--driven underflow driven underflow in in basin basin ((turbidityturbidity--currentcurrent))
Hyperpycnal plume Yellow River, China
Impact marine Impact marine processesprocesses
General influenceGeneral influence: : mixing mixing of water of water massesmasses, , exchange exchange of of momentum momentum and and redistributionredistribution of sedimentof sedimentTidal ProcessesTidal Processes–– Strong vertical Strong vertical and horizontal and horizontal mixingmixing–– BiBi--directional directional transporttransport
WaveWave--driven processesdriven processes–– Decrease in flow velocityDecrease in flow velocity–– Lateral expansion and refraction of outflowLateral expansion and refraction of outflow–– Increase in mixing (wave breaking)Increase in mixing (wave breaking)–– Longshore Longshore and crossand cross--shore redistribution of shore redistribution of
sedimentsediment
Tidal processes in river mouth; elongate mouth bars
Wave-dominated processes river mouthWave-dominated mouth bar morphology
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Cyclic model for delta development, Ba Lat, Vietnam
Tidal regime Gulf of Tonkin
4. Process-based classification
of River Deltas (Based on Galloway, 1975)
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Example 1: Rhône Delta, France Example 2: Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, Bangladesh
Example 3: Porong Delta, Java, Indonesia Example 4: Mississippi Delta, USA
Example 5: Donau Delta
5. 5. ReworkingReworking and and redistribution redistribution of of deltaic depositsdeltaic deposits
Channel shifting Channel shifting and and migrationmigrationReworking waves Reworking waves and and currentscurrentsPostPost--depositional depositional and and subaqueous subaqueous mass movementsmass movements
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Channel migration Yellow River delta Channel shifting Channel shifting and and migration migration --originorigin
Upstream development Upstream development of of bifurcationsbifurcationsBreaching levees Breaching levees > > crevassescrevassesAdvantage hydraulic gradient Advantage hydraulic gradient ((slopeslope))Formation Formation of sediment (mud) of sediment (mud) plugs plugs –– obstaclesobstacles
Delta lobes Mississippi Delta since 7000 yrs.
Cyclic processes
Development of Isle Dernieres –Louisiana, USA
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Hurricane Andrew 1992
Reworking by waves Reworking by waves and and currentscurrents
WaveWave--driven driven and and tidal flow tidal flow processes processes ((ebbebb//floodflood//tidal tidal asymmetryasymmetry))Residual flow patterns Residual flow patterns ((trade trade windswinds, , densitydensity--driven flowdriven flow))Nearshore Nearshore zonezoneOffshore delta front and Offshore delta front and prodeltaprodelta
Residual flow field – Ba Lat delta/Red River (Delft 3D model) Net bedload Transport – Delft3D model
a) Effect of tidal asymmetry on bedload transport
b) Effect of residual flow on bedload transport
c) Residual flow required to balance a)
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Initial erosion (red) and deposition (blue)
a) Effect of tidal asymmetry
b) Effect of residual flow
c) Comparison data 1949-2000
Subaqueous mass movementsSubaqueous mass movements
Lack Lack of of consolidation consolidation sedimentsedimentHigh High amounts amounts of of silt silt and and clay clay ((pore pore pressurepressure))High High deposition ratesdeposition ratesRelatively steep slopesRelatively steep slopesTriggersTriggers: : waveswaves, , earthquakesearthquakes, , tsunamistsunamis