John T. Wells

TL;DR: Science must guide MDP restoration, which will provide insights into delta restoration elsewhere and generally into coasts facing climate change in times of resource scarcity.

TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the Holocene mud wedge between the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers in the trade wind belt of northeastern South America provides a modern-day example of muds accumulating under moderate wave-energy conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors confirm the hypothesis of and show from satellite imagery that the fluctuations of the 1500 km-long muddy coast of South America between the Amazon and the Orinoco rivers have been governed primarily by the lunar 18.6 year nodal cycle over the last twenty years, with sea-level fluctuations from global warming or Nino Nina events being of secondary importance.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a hypothesis for the periodic stabilization of shifting mudflats, a process that has been recognized previously as the mechanism for initiation of new land growth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the depositional processes and stacking patterns of coarse-grained facies across a large fan delta and associated sub-lacustrine fan system offshore of the South Rukuru River using single-channel seismic data coupled with deep-water vibracores and gravity cores.