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River regulation and sea-level rise have damaged deltaic ecosystems as well as the sedimentological processes that support them. More scientific effort needs to be directed towards restoring land-building processes in our vanishing deltas.

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Figure 1: Land-building sediment budget in a delta.
Figure 2: The morphology of deltaic land resulting from a sediment supply of a, sand and b, silt.

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  1. Douglas A. Edmonds is at the Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana University, 1001 E. 10th Street, Bloomington, Indiana 47404, USA,

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Edmonds, D. Restoration sedimentology. Nature Geosci 5, 758–759 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1620

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