Off-river waterbodies on tidal rivers: Human impact on rates of infilling and the accumulation of pollutants

Geomorphology

Volumn 184, Issue , 2013, Pages 38-50

  Woodruff, Jonathan D ^a   Martini, Anna P ^b   Elzidani, Emhmed Z H ^a   Naughton, Thomas J ^a   Kekacs, Daniel J ^b   MacDonald, Daniel G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Floodplain; Meander cut off; Oxbow lake; Sediment transport; Tidal creek; Tie channel

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION RATE; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DEPOSITION; FLOODPLAIN; INFILL; MASS BALANCE; MEANDER; OXBOW LAKE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRAP; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTATION RATE; TIDAL CHANNEL; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

CONNECTICUT RIVER; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880042096     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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