The Wax Lake Outlet and Lower Atchafalaya River deltas in Louisiana have grown dramatically. Concern for the impact of this growth has led the US Army Corps of Engineers to conduct an investigation to predict how the deltas will evolve over the next 50 years and to determine the impacts of that growth on navigation, flood control, salinity, and sedimentation. Within this series of reports, this section documents field and laboratory studies and analysis on the gradation of selected bay sediments. Members of the US Army Engineer District, New Orleans; US Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES) Hydraulics Laboratory; and the Louisiana State University (LSU) performed the study. Core and grab samples were taken by LSU and returned to WES for geotechnical testing and analysis. A part of this work has been previously reported in Section 1, "Atchafalaya Bay Program Description and Data," in two volumes, and in Section 2, "Settling Characteristics of Bay Sediments." This section will emphasize the grain size analysis of approximately 325 samples taken within the bay system and tributaries. The results of this analysis ultimately became the data for several of the numerical model studies conducted and reported within this series of reports and other independent studies conducted at LSU under contract with the New Orleans District.


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    Title :

    The Atchafalaya River Delta. Report 2: Field Data. Section 3: Grain Size Analysis of Selected Bay Sediments



    Published in:

    Technical Report ; HL-82-15 rept. 2 sect. 3


    Publication date :

    1990


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    464613


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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