Collaborative Research: Climate and Anthropogenic Control on Sediment Dispersal Along the Indus Continental Margin

0623766和0623237乔山和穆伦巴赫摘要PI将参加一个已经资助的巡航调查印度河三角洲的大陆架。其目的是了解如何在其早期阶段的水下三角洲发展克服海平面的快速上升，由于高度增加的沉积物通量在冰消期后的最后一次冰期最大。PI还将调查过去半个世纪上游筑坝对三角洲的影响。这项研究将提供关于世界主要河流沉积物扩散系统的新信息，以及气候和沉积物输入如何受构造驱动，影响三角洲结构。更广泛的影响包括与英国和巴基斯坦的强有力的国际合作以及在美国和巴基斯坦的广泛教育工作。

0623766 and 0623237Giosan and MullenbachAbstractThe PIs will participate in an already funded cruise to investigate the shelf of the Indus Delta. The objective is to learn how in its early stages the subaqueous delta developed overcoming rapid sea-level rise, due to highly increased sediment flux in the deglacial phase following the last glacial maximum. The PIs will also investigate the effect of upstream damming on the delta for the last half century. The study will provide new information on sediment dispersal system on a major river of the world and how climate and sediment input, driven by tectonics, influences the deltaic architecture. Broader impacts include strong international collaboration with both UK and Pakistan and extensive educational efforts in the US and Pakistan.