Simulation models of salt-marsh morphodynamics: Some implications for high-intertidal sediment couplets related to sea-level change

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 113, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 211-223

  Allen, J R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Channels; Earthquakes; Holocene; Peat; Polders; Sedimentation

Indexed keywords

MORPHODYNAMICS; SALT MARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

EID: 0031433377     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0037-0738(97)00101-2     Document Type: Article

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