Aptitude of modern salt marshes to counteract relative sea-level rise, Venice Lagoon (Italy)

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 755-758

  Rizzetto, Federica ^a   Tosi, Luigi ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION RATE; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; HIGH TIDES; LOCAL HYDRODYNAMICS; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; PROGRESSIVE MORPHOLOGICAL; RELATIVE SEA LEVEL; REMOBILIZATION; SALT MARSHES; SEDIMENT AVAILABILITY; SHORT-TERM ANALYSIS; STORM TIDE; TIDAL CREEKS; VENICE LAGOON;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EROSION; LAKES; MORPHOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY; TIDES;

WETLANDS;

ACCRETION; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; HYDRODYNAMICS; LAGOON; REMOBILIZATION; SALTMARSH; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; TIDAL FLAT;

ITALY; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE LAGOON;

EID: 79960575381     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31736.1     Document Type: Article

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