RIVER AVULSIONS AND THEIR DEPOSITS

Rudy Slingerland, Norman D. Smith

doi:10.1146/annurev.earth.32.101802.120201

RIVER AVULSIONS AND THEIR DEPOSITS

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Rudy Slingerland

Department of Geosciences, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802;
Norman D. Smith

Department of Geosciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0340;

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公開日: 2004-05-19

DOI

10.1146/annurev.earth.32.101802.120201

公開者: Annual Reviews

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<jats:p>▪ Abstract Avulsion is the natural process by which flow diverts out of an established river channel into a new permanent course on the adjacent floodplain. Avulsions are primarily features of aggrading floodplains. Their recurrence interval varies widely among the few modern rivers for which such data exist, ranging from as low as 28 years for the Kosi River (India) to up to 1400 years for the Mississippi. Avulsions cause loss of life, property damage, destabilization of shipping and irrigation channels, and even coastal erosion as sediment is temporarily sequestered on the floodplain. They are also the main process that builds alluvial stratigraphy. Their causes remain relatively unknown, but stability analyses of bifurcating channels suggest that thresholds in the relative energy slope and Shields parameter of the bifurcating channel system are key factors.</jats:p>