Properties of intertidal marsh sediment mobilized by rainfall

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1245-1253

  Torres, Raymond ^a   Mwamba, Mwasi J ^a   Goñi, Miguel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; RAINFALL; REMOBILIZATION; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT;

ALGAE; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 0038529779     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.3.1245     Document Type: Article

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