Modelling delta and prodelta systems

DATABASE PHYSICAL MODELLING UTRECH

The data presented in this database contributes to verification and quantification of the
sequence stratigraphical concept and the systems dynamics in response to auto- and allocyclic
forcing.

The project “Physical modelling at a sedimentary systems scale” has been initiated by Dr. George Postma at the Department of Geology in Utrecht in 1993 and is still ongoing. The sealevel database is the result of experimental work by Max Van Heijst (PhD) in the period 1994-2000. He was assisted by a number of master research students: Wessel van Kesteren, Marco de Kleine, Rory Dalman and Alexander Okx to collect the data. The work was sponsored by Shell Research, Rijswijk, The Netherlands, on instigation of R.G de Jong and G.W.M. de Ruiter both from Shell. The database on climate will be based on the ongoing work of A.P. Van den Berg, and that on the System dynamics by M. Van Dijk. The construction of the database presented here is made possible through E.C. funding of Eurodelta project (contract nr. EVK3-CT2001-20001).
A synthesis of analogue flume models of rivershelf systems at geological relevant time scales with application to some large river systems in various tectonic settings (PDF, ~840KB)	by George Postma and Aart Peter van den Berg van Saparoea
Numerical modelling of delta evolution by nesting high and low resolution process-based models of sedimentary basin filling (PDF, ~11MB)	by Derek Karssenberg, Rory Dalman, Gert Jan Weltje, George Postma and John S. Bridge

Contact address:
George Postma, Sedimentology, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, POBOX 80.021, 3508TA, Utrecht , The Netherlands. gpostma@geo.uu.nl