The sedimentary record of climatic and anthropogenic influence on the Patuxent estuary and Chesapeake Bay ecosystems

Estuaries

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 196-209

  Cronin, Thomas M ^a   Vann, Cheryl D ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; HOLOCENE; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; SEDIMENTATION;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; MARYLAND; PATUXENT ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

CYTHEROMORPHA; CYTHEROMORPHA CURTA; CYTHEROMORPHA NEWPORTENSIS; FORAMINIFERA; LEPTOCYTHERE; LEPTOCYTHERE NIKRAVESHAE; LOXOCONCHA; OSTRACODA; PERISSOCYTHERIDEA; PERISSOCYTHERIDEA BRACHYFORMA;

EID: 0038045243     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02695962     Document Type: Article

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