Sediment flocculation in the Mekong River estuary, Vietnam, an important driver of geomorphological changes

Anthony, 2015, Linking rapid erosion of the Mekong River delta to human activities, Sci. Rep., 5, 14745, 10.1038/srep14745 Bravard, 2013, Geography of sand and gravel mining in the Lower Mekong River. First survey and impact assessment, Echogeo, 26, 2 Brunier, 2014, Recent morphological changes in the Mekong and Bassac river channels, Mekong Delta: the marked impact of river-bed mining and implications for delta destabilisation, Geomorphology, 224, 177, 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.07.009 Curran, 2003, Time variation of floc properties in a settling column, J. Sea Res., 49, 1, 10.1016/S1385-1101(02)00195-8 Darby, 2016, Fluvial sediment supply to a mega-delta reduced by shifting tropical-cyclone activity, Nature, 539, 276, 10.1038/nature19809 Dyer, 1989, Sediment processes in estuaries: future research requirements, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 94, 14327, 10.1029/JC094iC10p14327 Gratiot, 2016, Role of flocculation and settling processes in development of the mangrove-colonized, Amazon-influenced mud-bank coast of South America, Marine Geol., 373, 1, 10.1016/j.margeo.2015.12.013 Gratiot, 2005, On the determination of the settling flux of cohesive sediments in a turbulent fluid, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 110, C06004, 10.1029/2004JC002732 Gratiot, 2015 Hill, 1998, In situ observations of floc settling velocities, Marine Geol., 145, 85, 10.1016/S0025-3227(97)00109-6 Hung, 2012, Floodplain hydrology of the Mekong Delta, Vietnam, Hydrol. Proc., 26, 674, 10.1002/hyp.8183 Hwang, 1989 Kranenburg, 1994, The fractal structure of cohesive sediment aggregates, Estuar. Coast Shelf S., 39, 451, 10.1016/S0272-7714(06)80002-8 Kondolf, 2014, Dams on the Mekong: cumulative sediment starvation, Water Resour. Res., 50, 5158, 10.1002/2013WR014651 Kumar, 2010, Floc properties and settling velocity of San Jacinto estuary mud under variable shear and salinity conditions, Cont. Shelf Res, 30, 2067, 10.1016/j.csr.2010.10.006 Launay, 2014 Lee, 2014, Multimodal particle size distributions of fine-grained sediments: mathematical modeling and field investigation, Ocean Dynam., 64, 429, 10.1007/s10236-014-0692-y Lick, 1993, Flocculation of fine-grained sediments due to differential settling, J. Geophys. Res. - Oceans., 98, 10.1029/93JC00519 Loisel, 2014, Analysis of the SPM concentration variability of the coastal waters under the Mekong's influence, Rem. Sens. Envt., 150, 218, 10.1016/j.rse.2014.05.006 Manh, 2014, Large-scale suspended sediment transport and sediment deposition in the Mekong delta, HESS, 18, 3033 Manh, 2015, Future sediment dynamics in the Mekong delta floodplains: Impacts of hydropower development, climate change and sea level rise, Global Planet. Change, 127, 22, 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2015.01.001 Manning, 1999, A laboratory examination of floc characteristics with regard to turbulent shearing, Marine Geol., 160, 146, 10.1016/S0025-3227(99)00013-4 Mari, 2012, Aggregation dynamics along a salinity gradient in the Bach Dang estuary, North Vietnam, Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., 96, 151, 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.10.028 Mehta, 1989, On estuarine cohesive sediment suspension behavior, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 94, 14303, 10.1029/JC094iC10p14303 MRC, 2011 Nowacki, 2015, Sediment dynamics in the lower Mekong river: transition from tidal river to estuary, J. Geophys. Res. Oceans, 120, 6363, 10.1002/2015JC010754 Pejrup, 2010, Factors controlling the field settling velocity of cohesive sediment in estuaries, Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., 87, 177, 10.1016/j.ecss.2009.09.028 Peteuil, 2014 Ross, 1988 Sottolichio, 2011, Acoustic turbulence measurements of near-bed suspended sediment dynamics in highly turbid waters of a macrotidal estuary, Cont. Shelf Res., 31, S36, 10.1016/j.csr.2011.03.016 Tran, 2017, Suspended clays and silts: are they independent or dependent fractions when it comes to settling in a turbulent suspension?, Cont. Shelf Res., 138, 81, 10.1016/j.csr.2017.02.011 Valentin, 2008, Runoff and sediment losses from 27 upland catchments in Southeast Asia: impact of rapid land use changes and conservation practices, Agric. Ecosyst. Environ., 128, 225, 10.1016/j.agee.2008.06.004 Verney, 2009, Flocculation potential of estuarine particles: the importance of environmental factors and of the spatial and seasonal variability of suspended particulate matter, Estuar. Coast., 32, 678, 10.1007/s12237-009-9160-1 Wendling, 2015, Using an optical settling column to assess suspension characteristics within the free, flocculation and hindered settling regimes, J. Soils Sediment, 15, 1991, 10.1007/s11368-015-1135-1 Winterwerp, 2002, On the flocculation and settling of estuarine mud, Cont. Shelf Res., 22, 1339, 10.1016/S0278-4343(02)00010-9 Wolanski, 1996, Fine-sediment Dynamics in the Mekong River Estuary, Vietnam, Estuar. Coast. Shelf Sci., 43, 565, 10.1006/ecss.1996.0088 Wolanski, 1998, Sediment dynamics during low flow conditions in the Mekong river estuary, Vietnam. J. Coastal Res., 14, 472