Recent tidal-flat evolution and mangrove-habitat expansion: Application of radioisotope dating to environmental reconstruction

IAHS-AISH Publication

Volumn , Issue 325, 2008, Pages 76-84

  Swales, A ^a   Bentley, S J ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

210Pb; l37Cs; Dating; Sea level; Sedimentation; Surface elevation; Tidal inundation

Indexed keywords

210PB; L37CS; DATING; SURFACE ELEVATION; TIDAL INUNDATION;

CATCHMENTS; CESIUM; DEFORESTATION; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; EROSION; LEAD; LEAD ALLOYS; OCEAN HABITATS; RADIOISOTOPES; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; TIDES; WETLANDS;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ACCUMULATION RATE; COLONIZATION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; CORE ANALYSIS; DATING METHOD; ELEVATION; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; MANGROVE; MUDFLAT; RANGE EXPANSION; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA LEVEL; TIDAL FLAT;

CESIUM COMPOUNDS; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; EROSION; MANGROVE; POLLUTION CONTROL; RADIOISOTOPES; SEA WATER; SEDIMENTS; TIDES;

EID: 62949196367     PISSN: 01447815     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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