Sedimentation rates in flow-restricted and restored salt marshes in Long Island Sound

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 231-244

  Anisfeld, Shimon C ^a   Tobin, Marcia J ^a,b   Benoit, Gaboury ^a  

^a Yale School of the Environment   (United States)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SALTMARSH; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TIDAL CURRENT; WATER LEVEL;

CONNECTICUT; LONG ISLAND SOUND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032830607     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1352980     Document Type: Article

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