sediment distribution model. Storm waves resuspend fine-grained sediment in water depths of tens of metres and produce near bottom turbid water zones within basins. Fine sands and silt settle out rapidly, leading to the deposition of graded beds
on the basin floors. Residual sand and gravel accumulate on the near-shore platforms while silt and mud prograde over or are advected beyond basin slopes, burying older basin-fill sediment.
The deep basin water of Resurrection Bay (a simple-silled fjord at 60 N on the South central Alaskan coast) is renewed each summer with water having a dissolved oxygen concentration > 4 ml/l. Prior to 1976 more than 90 % of the allochtonous organic
carbon supply to the basin was from fish-processing waste. The relatively high flux of allochtonous carbon into Boca de Quadra appears to consist predominantly of refractory material which does not create a significant oxygen demand within the basin.
Framvaren, a fjord in South Norway is an example of extreme anoxia, due to the geomorphological features (sill depth: 2 m, basin depth: 180 m). The postglacial history of Framvaren is outlined emphasizing the preservation of environmental changes
of the Bella Coola River, which reflect climatic conditions and high drainage basin relief, river month processes, which are controlled by tidal stage and delta morphology: delta front deformational processes which are related primarily to oversteepening