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Survive or subside?

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Deltas are among the most valuable coastal ecosystems, but they are very dynamic and the factors that influence their health are complex. The rate of compaction of underlying sediments might be a more significant factor than was thought.

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Figure 1: Sediment from source to sink.

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  1. John W. Day is in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA johnday@lsu.edu,

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  2. Liviu Giosan is in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA. lgiosan@whoi.edu,

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Day, J., Giosan, L. Survive or subside?. Nature Geosci 1, 156–157 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo137

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