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River damming reduces sediment load in rivers, leading to instability and erosion of coastal deltas; this is a global issue in many large-river delta-front estuaries (LDEs). The total organic carbon, stable carbon isotope, total nitrogen, lignin phenols in suspended particulate matter, and three sediment cores collected from the Changjiang LDE were analyzed to study the effects of river damming and delta erosion on the redistribution and burial of organic carbon (OC) in the coastal margin. The OC budgets that include the delta erosion process were established to better constrain the burial fluxes of OC in the Changjiang River system before and after river damming. We used a three-end-member mixing model with Monte Carlo simulation and found that the ratio of deltaic OC to riverine OC significantly increased in estuarine SPM and sediment cores in the Changjiang LDE after the operation of the Three Gorges Dam (TGD), reflective of reduced sediment load and enhanced delta erosion. Our budget showed that, compared with the pre-dam period (1953–1985), the burial of terrestrial OC in the Changjiang LDE sediments had been reduced by ~97.3%, on the basis of 72.7% and 82.7% reductions in sed

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Author

Bin Zhao; Peng Yao; Dong Li; Zhigang Yu

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)