Holocene evolution of the merrimack embayment, northern massachusetts, interperted from shallow seismic stratigraphy

Coastal Sediments '07 - Proceedings of 6th International Symposium on Coastal Engineering and Science of Coastal Sediment Processes

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Hein, Christopher J ^a   Fitzgerald, Duncan M ^a   Barnhardt, Walter A ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITS; RIVERS; SAND; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; STRATIGRAPHY;

CUT-AND-FILL STRUCTURES; HOLOCENE TRANSGRESSION; SEISMIC DATA; SHALLOW SEISMIC STRATIGRAPHY;

SEISMIC WAVES;

EID: 34548556301     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1061/40926(239)65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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