Physical climate signatures in shallow- and deep-water deltas

Physical signatures of climate change in delta successions occur at various scales and frequencies. This paper shows examples of physical products of high frequency (river floods) and orbital-forced climate change as recorded in coarse-clastic shallow and deep-water delta systems. Changes in frequency of sea level oscillation occurring on a geological time scale (i.e. green-house and ice-house periods) may result in a drastic change in delta architecture from shelf-edge to shelf deltas.