Salt-marsh erosion associated with hurricane landfall in southern New England in the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries

Geology

Volumn 34, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 829-832

  van de Plassche, Orson ^a   Erkens, Gilles ^a   van Vliet, Frank ^a   Brandsma, Joost ^a   van der Borg, Klaas ^b   de Jong, Arie F M ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Connecticut; Hurricane record; Marsh recovery; Pattagansett River Marsh; Regressive sequence

Indexed keywords

HURRICANE LANDFALL; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC DATA; MARSH RECOVERY; PATTEGANSETT RIVER MARSH; RADIOCARBON DATA; REGRESSIVE SEQUENCE;

EROSION; HURRICANES; LANDFORMS; LITHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRATIGRAPHY;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

EROSION RATE; HURRICANE; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; MUDFLAT; PEAT; RADIOCARBON DATING; REGRESSION; SALTMARSH; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

CONNECTICUT; NEW ENGLAND; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33750043439     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G22598.1     Document Type: Article

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