Fundamental Fluid Dynamic Controls on Delta Clinoform Morpholgy

提供Bursik支持，对导致密西西比河等大型河流入海口三角洲沉积(斜床)形成的沉积过程进行实验研究。通过一系列复杂的实验室实验，将从流体力学的角度识别和描述控制三角洲沉积的主要三维过程。这些过程将被综合成一个理论模型，以解决三角洲沉积地层学方面尚未回答的重要问题。

Bursik Support is provide to conduct an experimental investigation of the sedimentation processes that lead to the formation of delta deposits (clinoforms) at the mouth of large rivers like the Mississippi. Using a series of complex laboratory experiments, the dominant three-dimensional processes controlling delta sedimentation will be identified and described from a fluid mechanics perspective. These processes will be synthesized into a theoretical model to address important unanswered questions on the stratigraphy of delta deposits.