The Three Gorges Dam (TGD) on the upper Changjiang (Yangtze River), China, disrupts the continuity of Changjiang sediment delivery to downstream and coastal areas. In this study, which was based on 54 years of annual water and sediment data from the mainstream and major tributaries of Changjiang, sediment deposition induced by the TGD in 2003–2008 was quantified. Furthermore, we determined the ...

Index words: Reservoir sedimentation Pb-210 dating Sediment retention Cs-137 dating The singlemost important factor affecting the longevity of US dams is sedimentation, reducing and perhaps eliminating the reservoir capacity for future sediment storage and floodwave attenuation. A better understanding of the sedimentation rates and sediment dynamics is required for a better management of these ...

DAI, Z.-J.; LIU, J.T.; LEI, Y.-P., and ZHANG, X.-L., 2010. Patterns of sediment transport pathways on a headland bay beach—Nanwan Beach, South China: a case study. Journal of Coastal Research, 26(6), 1096–1103. West Palm Beach (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Embayed beaches bounded by headlands, headland bay beaches, are a common feature along the coast of southern China. The patterns of sediment tr...

UNLABELLED Subseafloor sediment hosts a large, taxonomically rich, and metabolically diverse microbial ecosystem. However, the factors that control microbial diversity in subseafloor sediment have rarely been explored. Here, we show that bacterial richness varies with organic degradation rate and sediment age. At three open-ocean sites (in the Bering Sea and equatorial Pacific) and one continen...

background: toxaphene is a chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide. the residues of which have been documented throughout the biosphere including water, ground water, soil and lake sediments, even though its use was banned some years ago. toxaphene has been known as an important environmental pollutant as a result of its persistence in the environment, bioaccumulation and bio magnification in food ...

At present there is a poor understanding of changes in rates of erosion over long time periods and in the link between erosion and sediment delivery in Britain. Using a catchment study approach sediment accumulation rates in cores from the three lakes Semer Water, Gormire and Hornsea Mere have been used to reconstruct changes in sediment yield over time periods of up to 10 000 years, and estima...

managers always consider the precise estimation of sediments in watersheds due to various conditions, such assoil and water resources management, construction, infrastructure and economical and social issues. in this condition,an optimized determination of sediment rating equation (typical method until now for sediment yield estimation) isessential to investigate sediment yield in rivers. in th...

Suspended sediment concentration of a river can provide very important perspective on erosion or soil loss of one river basin ecosystem. The changes of land use and land cover, such as deforestation or afforestation, affect sediment yield process of a catchment through changing the hydrological cycle of the area. A sediment rating curve can describe the average relation between discharge and su...