Abandonment and rapid infilling of a tide-dominated distributary channel at 0.7 ka in the Mekong River Delta

Abstract The Ba Lai distributary channel of the Mekong River Delta was abandoned and infilled with sediment during the Late Holocene, providing a unique opportunity to investigate the sediment fill, timing and mechanisms of channel abandonment in tide-dominated deltaic systems. Based on analysis and...

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Main Authors: Marcello Gugliotta, Yoshiki Saito, Thi Kim Oanh Ta, Van Lap Nguyen, Toru Tamura, Zhanghua Wang, Andrew D. La Croix, Rei Nakashima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90268-6