Storm-generated sediment distribution along the northwest Florida inner continental shelf

W. Chad Vaughan; Kevin B. Briggs; Jin Wook Kim; Thomas S. Bianchi; Richard W. Smith

doi:10.1109/JOE.2009.2014660

Storm-generated sediment distribution along the northwest Florida inner continental shelf

W. Chad Vaughan, Kevin B. Briggs, Jin Wook Kim, Thomas S. Bianchi, Richard W. Smith

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Abstract

Hurricane Ivan made landfall along the Alabama-Florida coastline on September 16, 2004 as a category 3 storm. Ivan provided a rare opportunity to quantify surficial sediment changes following a significant storm event. Sidescan sonar imagery was collected immediately offshore Santa Rosa Island, FL, five days before and after Ivan's landfall 100 km west of the study area. Particle-size, multisensor core logger, X-radiography, photography, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) grain shape, direct shear, radiocarbon isotope, and lignin-phenol analyses were performed on grab or vibracore samples collected after the storm. Sonar observations before Ivan's landfall revealed a mostly sand bottom with uniform, small-scale wind-wave ripple morphology, and a distinct area of low backscatter trending NW-SE that was interpreted to be a mud swale. Ivan introduced new material to the relict sediments and resulted in the deposition of fine-grained material across the shelf that settled in the bathymetric lows and formed mud flaser deposits. Hardbottoms were draped by sand in some locations, but exposed in others. Ripple morphology changes occurred along sand ridges. Hurricane Ivan created major sediment distribution changes along the near-shore shelf, yet served to reinforce and to maintain the ridge-and-swale topography of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico near-shore continental shelf.

Original language	English
Article number	5191049
Pages (from-to)	495-515
Number of pages	21
Journal	IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering
Volume	34
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JOE.2009.2014660
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Manuscript received October 01, 2007; revised August 11, 2008; accepted January 14, 2009. First published August 04, 2009; current version published November 25, 2009. This work was supported by the U.S. Office of Naval Research and the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) Program Element 0601153N. The NRL contribution number is JA/7430-07-11. Associate Editor: M. D. Richardson. W. C. Vaughan was with the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 USA. He is now with the Minerals Management Service, New Orleans, LA 70123 USA (e-mail: Chad.Vaughan@mms.gov). K. B. Briggs is with the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 USA. J.-W. Kim was with the Naval Research Laboratory, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529 USA. He is now with Yonsei University, Seoul 120-749, South Korea. T. S. Bianchi and R. W. Smith are with Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843 USA. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/JOE.2009.2014660

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Storm-generated sediment distribution along the northwest Florida inner continental shelf

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