Salt marsh stability and patterns of sedimentation across a backbarrier platform

Marine Geology

Volumn 278, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 31-42

  Bartholdy, A T ^a   Bartholdy, J ^a   Kroon, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fine grained sediments; Salt marsh; Sea level rise; Skallingen; Tidal sedimentation

Indexed keywords

FINE-GRAINED SEDIMENT; SALT MARSH; SEA LEVEL RISE; SKALLINGEN; TIDAL SEDIMENTATION;

GEOLOGIC MODELS; LOCATION; SEA LEVEL; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

WETLANDS;

CLAY; DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT; DRY DENSITY; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENTATION;

DENMARK; SKALLINGEN PENINSULA; SYDDANMARK;

EID: 78649632090     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.margeo.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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