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NASA Earth Observatory

Winds Trigger Pond Growth

A satellite image study  shows that wind-driven waves can erode pond banks, lmoviing them in the direction of the wind. The paper, published in April 2017 in Geophysical Research Letters,Wnd-driven erosion nibbles away coastlines and inland on smaller scales.

The researchers analyzed roughly 10,000 satellite images taken between 1982 and 2016, examining land and water pixels to look for inland change across the Mississippi River Delta. Alejandra Ortiz, a marine geologist at Indiana University, Bloomington and colleagues focused on what happens when land becomes subdivided by inland erosion processes.

Ortiz and her co-authors found that ponds in the Mississippi Delta expanded south-west, the same direction as the  north-east winds. In Terrebonne and Barataria basins 80 percent of the ponds are expanding. The other study basin, the Atchafalaya-Vermillion, has nearly as many ponds contracting as expanding—roughly 30 percent.

The false-color image shows the Atchafalaya Delta, captured on December 1, 2016, by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8, emphasize the difference between land and water while allowing viewers to observe waterborne sediment, which is typically absent from false-color imagery.

Illustrateed below are ponds that have grown (blue) or receded (orange) near the delta. In areas like Houma, Louisiana, the size of ponds increased significantly. The Terrebone and Barataria basins have much higher pond density, making them more susceptible to ponds merging.

Some ponds were too small to generate waves strong enough to erode the shoreline. The critical pond width was about 300 meters (nearly 1,000 feet). Ponds that wide offer enough open space for “fetch” (wind induced seiches)to create waves big enough to nibble away the shore.
[How sure can they be that the seiches are not earthquake induced?]

Ortiz said that managers could create physical barriers to prevent ponds from growing. “One possibility is thinking about putting in something that stops wave generation,” she said.

[How about trees?
If that works it indicates that this phenomena is only as old as white colonialism]

    References and Related Reading
    Ortiz, A. et al. (2017) Land loss by pond expansion on the Mississippi River Delta Plain. Geophysical Research Letters 44 (8), 3635–3642.
    Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection, and Restoration Act (2017) The Terrebonne Basin. Accessed July 5, 2017.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and data from Ortiz, A. C., Roy, S., & Edmonds, D. A. (2017). Story by Pola Lem.

In Britain this has been going on since at least Roman Occupation and subsequent Anglo Saxon eras; offering historians a method of gauging the age of the earth. I like this idea better than anything that geology has to offer as it opens the door for discussion that geologist are blinded to.

Agricultural land in America offers little variety in hundreds of acres. In Britain the top soil type varies often more than once in every field.

Get ready to suck that one, geo-illogical rissole-burgers!