Distinction between sortable silts and aggregated particles in muddy intertidal sediments of the East Frisian Wadden Sea, southern North Sea

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 453-463

  Chang, Tae Soo ^a   Flemming, Burghard W ^b   Bartholomä, Alexander ^b  

^a Korea Institute of Geosceince and Mineral Resources   (South Korea)

^b SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggregates; Flocs; Sortable silts; Wadden Sea muds

Indexed keywords

FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FLOCCULATION; GRAIN SIZE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; MUD; SEDIMENTATION; SILT; SURFICIAL SEDIMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA; WADDEN SEA;

EID: 36148999488     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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