Won-Suk Kim

What if the Mississippi River levees were cut below New Orleans? What if much of the water and sediment were allowed to flow out and build new deltas? Could deltaic land loss be reversed, and indeed restored? Using a conservative sediment supply rate and a range of rates of sea level rise and subsidence, a physically based model of deltaic river sedimentation [ Kim et al. , 2009] predicts that approximately 700–1200 square kilometers of new land (exposed surface and in‐channel freshwater habitat

Experimentally determined shoreline migration rates show high‐frequency autogenic variability superimposed on low‐frequency allogenic shoreline responses induced by eustatic base level change. This variability persists even when the shoreline migration is averaged laterally, indicating time variation in total sediment discharge reaching the shoreline. The magnitude of autogenic variability in shoreline migration rate changes by roughly a factor of 3 depending on the shoreline migration direction

Abstract Shoreline position in sedimentary rocks is a sensitive recorder of the interplay of several controlling factors. The most important of these are thought to be the "stratigraphic trinity:" eustatic sea level, subsidence, and sediment supply. In ancient rock sequences, it is generally difficult to disentangle the effects of these variables. Here we analyze the relative influence of sea level, subsidence, sediment supply, and other controlling variables on shoreline migration in an experim

At the heart of interpreting the history of Earth surface evolution preserved in the rock record is distinguishing environmental (allogenic) forcing from internally generated (autogenic) "noise." Allogenic deposits classically have been recognized by their cyclic nature, which apparently results from periodic changes in base level, sediment supply, or tectonics. Autogenic deposits, which are quite variable in their origin and scale, are caused by the nonlinearity of sediment transport and might

Research Article| April 01, 2007 Long-period cyclic sedimentation with constant tectonic forcing in an experimental relay ramp Wonsuck Kim; Wonsuck Kim 1Department of Geology and Geophysics, and St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414, USA Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Chris Paola Chris Paola 1Department of Geology and Geophysics, and St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55414, USA

Most of the models of alluvial fan and delta morphodynamics to date have used one of two assumptions concerning the upstream boundary condition: (1) a fixed sediment feed point at the vertex or (2) a feed point corresponding to a bedrock‐alluvial transition that, e.g., migrates upstream under conditions of constant base level. Here, however, we present both experimental and numerical results pertaining to a new configuration, i.e., one in which the sediment feed point migrates downstream. The re

Real-time multiversion concurrency control algorithms are proposed, to: increase concurrency, adjust the serialization order dynamically and work without an estimate of a transaction's runtime. The authors also propose disk scheduling algorithms which consider not only the transactions which request input/output (I/O) but also those affected by I/O. They consider transactions which are directly affected when priorities of I/O requests are assigned, in addition to transactions which generates the

ABSTRACT A major issue in tectonics and sedimentation is the role of cross‐stream tectonic tilting in steering channels. The general idea is that channels will be attracted to lateral maxima in subsidence rate. A physical experiment performed in 1999 at the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, however, was in conflict with the idea and showed that fluvial channels and resulting stratigraphy can be insensitive to even relatively strong lateral variation in subsidence. Here, we present results from an ex

Short‐term autogenic processes are thought to be averaged out by long‐term allogenic forcing and have often been ruled out in stratigraphic interpretation. It is generally difficult to resolve the scale of autogenic effects on landscape evolution and even more so on sedimentary records. Here we analyze short‐term variation in migration rate of the alluvial‐bedrock transition in a series of experiments. The experiments developed a fan delta over a stationary, sloped, nonerodible basement with con

Abstract A mathematical model of carbonate platform evolution is presented in which depth‐dependent carbonate growth rates determine platform‐top accumulation patterns in response to rising relative sea‐level. This model predicts that carbonate platform evolution is controlled primarily by the water depth and sediment accumulation rate conditions at the onset of relative sea‐level rise. The long‐standing ‘paradox of a drowned platform’ arose from the observation that maximum growth rate potentia

[1] It is now generally accepted that deltas that prograde to the shelf edge are able to transport coarse sediment to deep water either with or without sea level changes. However, it is still unclear how feeder rivers behave differently in the shelf-edge delta case to rivers found in a delta that progrades over the shelf. A series of nine shelf-edge delta experiments are presented to investigate the lateral mobility of the feeder channel at the shelf edge and the associated deep water deposition

Abstract The ability of deltas to persist by building new land is critical to maintaining these vital ecologic environments that are often home to major economic and population centers. However, the deposition of land‐building sediment triggers load‐induced shallow subsidence which may undermine the effectiveness of natural and engineered emergent landforms. Here, we present a new method to quantify shallow subsidence in a 6,000–8,000 km 2 relict bayhead delta of the Mississippi Delta using the

Increasingly wireless networks use multi-antenna nodes as in IEEE 802.11n and 802.16. The physical layer (PHY) in such systems may use the antennas to provide multiple streams of data (spatial multiplexing) or to increase the robustness of fewer streams. These physical layers also provide support for sending packets at different rates by changing the modulation and coding of transmissions. Rate adaptation is the problem of choosing the best transmission mode for the current channel and in these

Abstract We present a geometric, sediment mass-balance model for the interaction of axial and transverse alluvial systems in a subsiding basin. By comparing the model result with a flume experiment that employed a simplified half-graben tectonic geometry with axial and transverse sediment sources, we quantify rates of axial-transverse erosional sediment mixing. In the experiment, the lateral migration rate of the axial-transverse boundaries due to the sediment mixing scales with sediment supplie