Deltas short course
From CSDMS
Deltas: Dynamics, Morphology and Observing of delta processes and human impacts
contributed by J. Syvitski
lecture reviews the difficulty of defining a delta, reviews concepts of distributary channels and avulsion that are so intrinsically important in deltas, reviews recent progress on modeling an dquantifying aggradaton in the delta plain, reviews processes in the marine domain and the concept and effect of relative sea level rise
The second lecture goes into more detail on the CMT:
A overview paper, published in the SEPM Sedimentary record of March 2011 on CSDMS and the vision of plug and play technology is posted here : PDF
