Recent estuarine sedimentation rates from shallow inter-tidal environments in western Scotland: Implications for future sea-level trends and coastal wetland development

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 30, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 109-129

  Teasdale, Phillip A ^a   Collins, Philip E F ^b   Firth, Callum R ^a   Cundy, Andrew B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; BRITAIN; COASTAL MARSH; COASTAL WETLANDS; ESTUARINE SEDIMENTATION; EUSTATIC SEA-LEVEL RISE; GEOCHEMICAL DATA; GEOPHYSICAL MODELS; ISOSTATIC UPLIFT; LARGE SECTION; LATE HOLOCENE; MAJOR AND TRACE ELEMENTS; MARSH SEDIMENTS; MORPHOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; NEAR-SURFACE; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; QUASI-EQUILIBRIUM; RADIOMETRIC DATING; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATA; SCOTLAND; SEA LEVEL RISE; SEDIMENT ACCUMULATION; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATES; STUDY AREAS; SURFACE LAYERS; TIDAL ENVIRONMENTS; TWENTIETH CENTURY; VERTICAL ACCRETION;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; CESIUM; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SURFACES; TRACE ANALYSIS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

WETLANDS;

ABUNDANCE; CESIUM ISOTOPE; COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL WETLAND; CRUSTAL MOVEMENT; DATA SET; DIATOM; DOME; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; GEOPHYSICAL METHOD; GLACIOISOSTASY; HOLOCENE; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LEAD ISOTOPE; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TRACE ELEMENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UPLIFT; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 78650521472     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.08.002     Document Type: Article

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