Storm erosion during the past 2000years along the north shore of Delaware Bay, USA

Geomorphology

Volumn 208, Issue , 2014, Pages 160-172

  Nikitina, Daria L ^a   Kemp, Andrew C ^b   Horton, Benjamin P ^c,d   Vane, Christopher H ^e   van de Plassche, Orson ^f   Engelhart, Simon E ^g  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^f VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Delaware Estuary; Holocene; Paleotempestology; Salt marsh; Tropical cyclone

Indexed keywords

DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EROSION; ESTUARINE SEDIMENT; GEOLOGICAL RECORD; HOLOCENE; PREHISTORIC; RECONSTRUCTION; SALTMARSH; SEDIMENT CORE; SEDIMENTATION; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; DELAWARE ESTUARY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893759391     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.11.022     Document Type: Article

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