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Sources of sediment to the coastal waters of the Southern California Bight
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Jonathan A. Warrick
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Jonathan A. Warrick
U.S. Geological Survey, 400 Natural Bridges Drive, Santa Cruz, California 95060, USA
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Katherine L. Farnsworth
Katherine L. Farnsworth
U.S. Geological Survey, 400 Natural Bridges Drive, Santa Cruz, California 95060, USA
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Published:January 01, 2009
The sources of sediment to the Southern California Bight were investigated with new calculations and published records of sediment fluxes, both natural and anthropogenic. We find that rivers are by far the largest source of sediment, producing over 10 × 106 t/yr on average, or over 80% of the sediment input to the Bight. This river flux is variable, however, over both space and time. The rivers draining the Transverse Ranges produce sediment at rates approximately an order of magnitude greater than the Peninsular Ranges (600–1500 t/km2/yr versus <90 t/km2/yr, respectively). Although the Transverse Range...
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Earth Science in the Urban Ocean: The Southern California Continental Borderland
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Homa J. Lee;
Homa J. Lee
U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, USA
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William R. Normark
William R. Normark
U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, USA
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454
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© 2009 Geological Society of America
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9780813724546
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January 01, 2009
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- California
- coastal sedimentation
- continental borderland
- continental margin sedimentation
- controls
- dams
- discharge
- East Pacific
- estuarine sedimentation
- fluvial sedimentation
- marine sediments
- North Pacific
- Northeast Pacific
- Pacific Ocean
- provenance
- recurrence interval
- sedimentation
- sedimentation rates
- sediments
- Southern California
- stream sediments
- suspended materials
- Transverse Ranges
- United States
- Southern California Bight
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