Salinity history of coastal marshes reconstructed from diatom remains

Estuaries

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1078-1089

  Parsons, Michael L ^a,c   Dortch, Quay ^a   Turner, R Eugene ^b   Rabalais, Nancy N ^a  

^a Louisiana Universities Mar C   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACKISH WATER; COASTAL WETLAND; HISTORICAL RECORD; RECONSTRUCTION; SALINITY; SALTMARSH; WATER CHEMISTRY;

LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0033368057     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1353085     Document Type: Article

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