in the recent years, sediments are used for the assessment of pollution. since sediments have been in contact for a long time with over lying water, therefore they have been able to adsorb pollution on to their surface. in the present investigation, the surficial sediments of siahrud river have been analyzed. the loose, sulphide and organic bonds of metals with various sedimentary phases has be...

Near-surface seafloor properties affect offshore mining and infrastructure engineering. Shallow sediments experience extremely low effective stress, consequently, these exhibit very in-situ density, shear wave velocity, stiffness. We combined data extracted from the literature with new laboratory field results to develop a comprehensive understanding of shallow sediments. First, we explored sed...

The present study investigates the performances of the three-dimensional multicomponent hydro-sedimentary model ROMS (Regional Ocean Modeling System) to predict near-surface suspended sediment concentrations (SSC) in the English Channel (western Europe). Predictions are assessed against satellite-retrieved observations from raw MODIS and MERIS images for the year 2008 characterized by the highe...

Coordinated taphonomic, geochronologic, and geochemical studies of bivalve death assemblages and their sedimentary environments of San Blas, Caribbean Panama, permit us to identify the major factors controlling skeletal degradation in mixed carbonate-siliciclastic tropical shelf sediments. Ten sites were studied along environmental gradients including water nutrients, grain size, and sediment c...

Glacial Lake Missoula formed when the Purcell Trench lobe of the Cordilleran ice sheet dammed Clark Fork River in Montana during the Fraser Glaciation (marine oxygen isotope stage 2). Over a period of several thousand years, the lake repeatedly filled and drained through its ice dam, and floodwaters coursed across the landscape in eastern Washington. In this paper, we describe the stratigraphy ...

The upper part of the Krka River estuary and Prokljan Lake are a specific example well-stratified estuarine environment in submerged river canyon. Here, we reconstructed geomorphological evolution area classified data gathered study, integrating multibeam echosounder data, backscatter side-scan sonar morpho-bathymetric surveys, acoustic sub-bottom profiling, with addition ground-truthing sedime...

The trace fossil Trichichnus is proposed as an indicator of fossil bioelectric bacterial activity at the oxic-anoxic interface zone of marine sediments. This fulfils the idea that such processes, commonly found in the modern realm, should be also present in the geological past. Trichichnus is an exceptional trace fossil due to its very thin diameter (mostly less than 1 mm) and common pyritic fi...

Drilling during Ocean Drilling Program Leg 160 (April–May, 1995) revealed important new evidence concerning the internal composition, depositional processes, and age of two mud volcanoes within the Mediterranean Ridge accretionary complex. Holes were drilled at ca. 2000 m water depth on the crest areas, across the flanks of the mud volcanoes, and onto adjacent deep-sea sediments. The main depos...