Dynamic response of marshes to perturbations in suspended sediment concentrations and rates of relative sea level rise

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  D'Alpaos, A ^a   Mudd, S M ^b   Carniello, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; AMPLITUDE; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; MARSH; PERTURBATION; SEA LEVEL CHANGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIDAL MODELING; TIMESCALE;

EID: 81255210907     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JF002093     Document Type: Article

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