Transmission of climate, sea-level, and tectonic singals across river systems

This thesis investigates the impact of climatic, tectonic, and sea-level changes (external forcing) on river systems (source-to-sink) and how these changes are recorded in the stratigraphic record. It describes a newly developed numerical tool (PaCMod) to simulate the complex fluvial system sediment flux response to external forcing on a geological time scale. Numerical modelling simulations, combined with field data indicated that the late Quaternary evolution of the Golo River system (France) was controlled by a complex interaction of sea-level and climatic forcing. Stratigraphic analysis in the Panther Tongue delta (Utah) showed how different parts of an ancient shoreline reacted differently to the same changes in external forcing, which consequently, have a different stratigraphic expression along depositional strike.Geoscience & EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience

Impact of external forcing and catchment response on sediment flux

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Upstream versus downstream forcing: The response of the Golo River system, Corsica, to late quaternary climatic and eustatic oscillations

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