Sedimentary Crisis at the Global Scale 1: Large Rivers, From Abundance to Scarcity

The Earth’s oceans are currently undergoing unprecedented changes: rivers have suffered a severe reduction in their sediment transport, and as a result, sediment input to the oceans has dropped lower than ever before. These inputs have varied over millennia as a result of both natural occurrences and human actions, such as the building of dams and the extraction of materials from riverbeds.

Sedimentary Crisis at the Global Scale 1 examines how river basins have been affected by the sediment...