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00925njm 22002777a 4500 dc Chavarrías Borrás, Víctor author Blom, Astrid author Orrú, Clara author Martín Vide, Juan Pedro author Viparelli, Enrica author 2018-05 Laboratory experiments were conducted on a sand-gravel Gilbert delta to gain insight on its dynamics under varying base level. Base level rise results in intensified aggradation over the topset, as well as a decrease in topset slope and topset surface coarsening, the signals of which migrate in an upstream direction. Preferential deposition of coarse sediment in the topset results in a finer load at the topset-foreset break, which creates a fine signature in the foreset deposit. Base level fall has the opposite effects. Entrainment of the topset mobile armor causes a coarsening of the load at the topset-foreset break and so a coarse signature in the foreset deposit. The entrainment of the topset substrate and fine top part of the foreset may follow, which causes a fining of the load and a fine signature in the foreset deposit. The fact that the upstream sediment supply requires a certain slope and bed surface texture to be transported downstream under quasi-equilibrium conditions counteracts the effects of base level change. This information travels in the downstream direction. In nature base level change is likely so slow that the upstream sediment load maintains the topset slope and bed surface texture and so keeps the topset in a quasi-equilibrium state. Base level change is therefore not expected to leave a clear signal in a mixed-sediment Gilbert delta other than a change in elevation of the topset-foreset interface. Peer Reviewed Postprint (published version) Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Enginyeria hidràulica, marítima i sanitària::Ports i costes Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria civil::Geologia::Hidrologia Sediments (Geology) Deltas Gilbert delta mixed-sediment morphodynamics image analysis size stratification Deltes Sediments (Geologia) A sand-gravel Gilbert delta subject to base level change