How a marsh is built from the bottom up

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 859-862

  Gunnell, John R ^a   Rodriguez, A B ^a   McKee, B A ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION RATE; LATERAL EXPANSION; NORTH CAROLINA; PHYSICAL MECHANISM; SAMPLING SITE; SEDIMENTATION CHARACTERISTIC; TIME RESOLUTION; VERTICAL ACCRETION;

LEAD; STRATIGRAPHY;

WETLANDS;

ACCRETION; COLONIZATION; MUDFLAT; ONTOGENY; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHY;

NEWPORT RIVER; NORTH CAROLINA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84888811327     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34582.1     Document Type: Article

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