Sedimentation cycles in a river-mouth tidal freshwater marsh

Estuaries

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 407-415

  Pasternack, Gregory B ^a   Brush, Grace S ^a  

^a The Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARINE DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MARSH; SEDIMENTATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031656722     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352839     Document Type: Article

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