Sedimentary supply

• Note: Currently, 70% of the total

load of sediment is supplied
from 10% of the land area.
• Three rivers: the Ganges, the
Brahmaputra and the Huang He
(Yellow River) supply 20% of the
total fluvial load – all in south
east Asia, all in monsoonal
climate (high specific runoff),
coming of the Tibetan plateau
(maximum height of catchment)
with significant annual and
temperature range.

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 Geometries of
sedimentary stacking
• There are three principle
stacking geometries:
• Retrogradation – shoreline and
sedimentary accumulation moves
towards the hinterland.
• Aggradation - shoreline and
sedimentary accumulation do not
changes their relative position.
• Progradation - shoreline and
sedimentary accumulation moves
towards the basin.

Van Wagoner et al., 1990

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 Base level
• Cross and Lessenger, 1998:
“descriptor of the interactions
between processes that create
and remove accommodation
space and surficial processes that
bring sediment or that remove
sediment from that space”

• It is the surface of balance

between erosion and
sedimentation which is more or
less at sea level Plummer and McGeary, 1996

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 Changes in base level

Catuneanu, 2006

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