Journal article
Revealing Sediment Transport Pathways and Geomorphic Change in Washover Fans by Combining Drone-Derived Digital Elevation Models and Single Grain Luminescence Data
Simon Matthias May, John Nikolaus Callow, Dominik Brill, Dirk Hoffmeister, Jan-Hendrik May
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-EARTH SURFACE | AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION | Published : 2021
DOI: 10.1029/2020JF005792
Abstract
Chronostratigraphic investigations on coastal sedimentary records such as washover fans or beach-ridge sequences may be used to reconstruct storm chronologies on centennial to millennial time scales. However, modern analogs are pivotal in interpreting depositional processes and reducing uncertainty in evaluating the complex chronostratigraphic architecture of these landforms. Such a modern analog was provided by category 3 tropical cyclone (TC) Olwyn in 2015, which caused a significant storm surge in the Exmouth Gulf (Western Australia). Pre- and post-TC Olwyn geomorphological surveys and high-resolution drone-derived topographical data of a large washover fan document a detailed history of ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors declare no competing financial or personal interests. Funding by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, MA 5768/1-1) and an UoC mobility grant (granted to S. M. May) is gratefully acknowledged. We thank Toru Tamura and two anonymous reviewers for the detailed and supportive comments and corrections during the review process. The research was kindly permitted and supported by Ann Preest, the local elders and aboriginal communities of Exmouth, the landowner and managers of Exmouth Gulf station, and Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA) (Perth, Exmouth). Open access funding enabled and organized by ProjektDEAL. WOA Institution: UNIVERSITAET ZU KOLN Blended DEAL: ProjektDEAL.