Controls on salt marsh accretion: A test in salt marshes of eastern Canada

Estuaries

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 70-81

  Chmura, Gail L ^a   Hung, Grace A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; DATING METHOD; ORGANIC MATTER; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; TIDAL RANGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY; CANADA; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

CHRISTIA;

EID: 2142813967     PISSN: 01608347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02803561     Document Type: Article

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